Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... brought about by the Roman conquests , were beginning to ruin Italian agriculture and to thin out the farmers who formed the backbone of the old Roman race . A single man was fated to bring forward both these questions , to formulate ...
... brought about by the Roman conquests , were beginning to ruin Italian agriculture and to thin out the farmers who formed the backbone of the old Roman race . A single man was fated to bring forward both these questions , to formulate ...
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... brought to a head when the clamour of the multitude who were fleeing from the scene of riot was heard . Inquiries made of the fugitives elicited the wildest statements ; some said that Gracchus was deposing all the other tribunes from ...
... brought to a head when the clamour of the multitude who were fleeing from the scene of riot was heard . Inquiries made of the fugitives elicited the wildest statements ; some said that Gracchus was deposing all the other tribunes from ...
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... brought before the people by the tribune , M. Minucius . This brought Caius to the front . The scheme for transmarine colonisation was very dear to him . In it , as he believed , lay the true remedy for the economic distress of the ...
... brought before the people by the tribune , M. Minucius . This brought Caius to the front . The scheme for transmarine colonisation was very dear to him . In it , as he believed , lay the true remedy for the economic distress of the ...
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