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364 the whole nation, to do the same. By her persuasion, they entered into a durable alliance with the Romans; so that, in the various irruptions of the barbarians on the empire, the Marcomans are never mentioned by historians, though only separated by the Danube. Gifford's France.

the victory gained at Philippi by Octavius and Antony, the latter went into Asia to settle the affairs of the east, and Octavius returned to Rome, where, happening to quarrel with Fulvia, she took arms against him; and was not satisfied with retiring to Præneste, and drawing thither the knights and senators of her party, but armed herself in person, gave the word to the soldiers, and harangued them.

"She was a woman," says Plutarch, "not born for spinning or housewifry, nor one that could be content with the power of ruling a private husband; but a lady capable of advising a magistrate, and of ruling the general of an army, so that Cleopatra had great obligations to her, for having taught Antony to be obedient." Antony, however, upbraided her so bitterly for entering into this war, that she went into Greece, where she contracted a disease through the violence of her anger, of which she died. During the massacres committed by the triumvirate on the great and leading men of the city, in which her husband was a principal actor, Fulvia assisted him to the utmost of her power. She put  ral