Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 69
... completing his legislation in behalf of the Equites and in developing his great colonial schemes , especially that for ... complete hold over the Comitia than either of them had ever possessed . The project was one which was eminently ...
... completing his legislation in behalf of the Equites and in developing his great colonial schemes , especially that for ... complete hold over the Comitia than either of them had ever possessed . The project was one which was eminently ...
Page 188
... complete unconsciousness of his own folly , he says that " now was the time for my well - turned periods , my flowers of rhetoric , my antitheses and figures . You know my wonted thunders : this day they were so loud that I think that ...
... complete unconsciousness of his own folly , he says that " now was the time for my well - turned periods , my flowers of rhetoric , my antitheses and figures . You know my wonted thunders : this day they were so loud that I think that ...
Page 339
... complete sovereignty , and was still in the stage of trying experiments . Probably he designed to take the name of king : probably he intended to make his power hereditary , for he had adopted his great - nephew Octavian , and had begun ...
... complete sovereignty , and was still in the stage of trying experiments . Probably he designed to take the name of king : probably he intended to make his power hereditary , for he had adopted his great - nephew Octavian , and had begun ...
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