Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... command at Aquae Sextiae or on the Raudian Plain . But Europe escaped the premature coming of the Dark Ages , and the black cloud of barbarism from the north having passed away , the men of the later Republic were left free to work out ...
... command at Aquae Sextiae or on the Raudian Plain . But Europe escaped the premature coming of the Dark Ages , and the black cloud of barbarism from the north having passed away , the men of the later Republic were left free to work out ...
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... command , told him all the woes of the poor freeholder in the days when farming had ceased to pay . At any rate , when he settled down once more in Rome , he imagined that he had probed to the bottom the existing distress and its causes ...
... command , told him all the woes of the poor freeholder in the days when farming had ceased to pay . At any rate , when he settled down once more in Rome , he imagined that he had probed to the bottom the existing distress and its causes ...
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... command of a body of Cretan mercenaries who chanced to be passing through the city , and had ordered a general muster of the clients and retainers of his friends . They were a formidable band , and , with the magistrates at their head ...
... command of a body of Cretan mercenaries who chanced to be passing through the city , and had ordered a general muster of the clients and retainers of his friends . They were a formidable band , and , with the magistrates at their head ...
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... commands of the suzerain power . When embassies of remonstrance were sent him , he had merely quieted the envoys by judicious bribes combined with lavish promises of submission . He carried on this shameless policy for five years ( B.C. ...
... commands of the suzerain power . When embassies of remonstrance were sent him , he had merely quieted the envoys by judicious bribes combined with lavish promises of submission . He carried on this shameless policy for five years ( B.C. ...
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... command of the sea , and by means of it could send succours round the peninsula , even when the central lines of communication were held by the enemy . The provinces , fortunately for her , did not choose this moment to revolt ; from ...
... command of the sea , and by means of it could send succours round the peninsula , even when the central lines of communication were held by the enemy . The provinces , fortunately for her , did not choose this moment to revolt ; from ...
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