Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The GracchiE. Arnold, 1941 - 348 pages |
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Page 202
... never attempted to attack the Parthian in the open with an army of the old Roman type . They took into the field large bodies of cavalry and tens of thousands of foot - archers . These last proved especially successful against the ...
... never attempted to attack the Parthian in the open with an army of the old Roman type . They took into the field large bodies of cavalry and tens of thousands of foot - archers . These last proved especially successful against the ...
Page 256
... never seems to have had more than 40,000 or 45,000 men . He was operating across utterly unknown country ; each ... never desisted from a task that he had taken in hand , but he never took in hand any task that was rash or unnecessary ...
... never seems to have had more than 40,000 or 45,000 men . He was operating across utterly unknown country ; each ... never desisted from a task that he had taken in hand , but he never took in hand any task that was rash or unnecessary ...
Page 336
... never been known in the days of the Republican régime . But it must be remembered that it was purely material - Cæsar could give no moral impulse to the world . The empire was a time of lost ideals , because its founder was himself a ...
... never been known in the days of the Republican régime . But it must be remembered that it was purely material - Cæsar could give no moral impulse to the world . The empire was a time of lost ideals , because its founder was himself a ...
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