Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... Rome becomes of absorbing interest . Ex- ternally the question arises whether the sporadic and ill - compacted empire built up in the last hundred years shall endure , or whether it shall be swept away by the brute force of the Cimbri ...
... Rome becomes of absorbing interest . Ex- ternally the question arises whether the sporadic and ill - compacted empire built up in the last hundred years shall endure , or whether it shall be swept away by the brute force of the Cimbri ...
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... Rome , were a number of social and economic questions , arising from the fact that the new commercial conditions of the Mediterranean world , which followed from the Roman conquests , were bringing about the ruin of the old farmer class ...
... Rome , were a number of social and economic questions , arising from the fact that the new commercial conditions of the Mediterranean world , which followed from the Roman conquests , were bringing about the ruin of the old farmer class ...
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... Rome had to a large extent become cosmopolitan , having absorbed much Greek , or rather Græco - Asiatic , culture and philosophy , and still more of Hellenistic luxury and demoralisation . The very blood of the people was getting ...
... Rome had to a large extent become cosmopolitan , having absorbed much Greek , or rather Græco - Asiatic , culture and philosophy , and still more of Hellenistic luxury and demoralisation . The very blood of the people was getting ...
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... Rome seemed unable to discharge , was the duty of keeping the police of the high seas and suppressing piracy . This task had in earlier centuries been to some extent dis- charged by the old naval powers - Carthage in the west , Macedon ...
... Rome seemed unable to discharge , was the duty of keeping the police of the high seas and suppressing piracy . This task had in earlier centuries been to some extent dis- charged by the old naval powers - Carthage in the west , Macedon ...
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... Rome herself were — as we shall see - tending to internal decay , though certain indi- vidual Romans and Italians were drawing huge profits from the newly acquired empire , the whole Mediterranean world seemed doomed to retrogression ...
... Rome herself were — as we shall see - tending to internal decay , though certain indi- vidual Romans and Italians were drawing huge profits from the newly acquired empire , the whole Mediterranean world seemed doomed to retrogression ...
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