Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... never - ending wars in Spain , Macedonia , and the Hellenic East , which cover the period B.C. 200-140 , hide the unwritten history of the most important changes in the social and economic con- ditions of Italy . In B.C. 200 Rome was ...
... never - ending wars in Spain , Macedonia , and the Hellenic East , which cover the period B.C. 200-140 , hide the unwritten history of the most important changes in the social and economic con- ditions of Italy . In B.C. 200 Rome was ...
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... never loved , and which he rigidly eschewed at certain seasons of the year . The pro- consuls in Spain got from the first a free hand such as no previous Roman governor had possessed . It was a long time before any other provinces were ...
... never loved , and which he rigidly eschewed at certain seasons of the year . The pro- consuls in Spain got from the first a free hand such as no previous Roman governor had possessed . It was a long time before any other provinces were ...
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... both because it was expensive , and because they themselves disliked the sea . Hence the Mediterranean swarmed with pirates in a way that had never before been seen . The poorer and wilder maritime races took to piracy en masse , and ...
... both because it was expensive , and because they themselves disliked the sea . Hence the Mediterranean swarmed with pirates in a way that had never before been seen . The poorer and wilder maritime races took to piracy en masse , and ...
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... never stand still . Raids had to be punished by retaliatory expeditions . The tribe that had been chastised would not remain quiet till it had been actually annexed ; and so the process went on , for beyond each marauding clan lay ...
... never stand still . Raids had to be punished by retaliatory expeditions . The tribe that had been chastised would not remain quiet till it had been actually annexed ; and so the process went on , for beyond each marauding clan lay ...
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... never - ending and disastrous Spanish campaigns . On the whole , too much is made of these causes . If farming is really paying , it suffers less than might be expected from a protracted war , unless indeed that war is waged within the ...
... never - ending and disastrous Spanish campaigns . On the whole , too much is made of these causes . If farming is really paying , it suffers less than might be expected from a protracted war , unless indeed that war is waged within the ...
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