Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, Cato, Pompey, CaesarE. Arnold, 1903 - 348 pages |
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... Gaul , Spain could only be reached by a long sea voyage , which the Roman 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 ...
... Gaul , Spain could only be reached by a long sea voyage , which the Roman 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 ...
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... Gaul [ B.C. 125 ] . The Senate deliberately threw the chance of military glory in his way by assigning him the Gallic province ; he could not resist the opportunity , and disappeared from home politics for two years . The only practical ...
... Gaul [ B.C. 125 ] . The Senate deliberately threw the chance of military glory in his way by assigning him the Gallic province ; he could not resist the opportunity , and disappeared from home politics for two years . The only practical ...
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... Gaul . At first the troubles were not serious ; the atten- tion of Rome was distracted to the Jugurthine war , and little attention was paid to the raids of the Celts or Germans . But things gradually grew worse : several small Roman ...
... Gaul . At first the troubles were not serious ; the atten- tion of Rome was distracted to the Jugurthine war , and little attention was paid to the raids of the Celts or Germans . But things gradually grew worse : several small Roman ...
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... Gaul . For the originators of all the stress and turmoil , the great mass of migratory bands whom we vaguely know under the name of the Cimbri and Teutons , had thrust aside the lesser tribes and were marching against Italy itself . An ...
... Gaul . For the originators of all the stress and turmoil , the great mass of migratory bands whom we vaguely know under the name of the Cimbri and Teutons , had thrust aside the lesser tribes and were marching against Italy itself . An ...
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... Gaul , spreading devastation around them , that the barbarians turned back at last to the true objective , and marched in two vast columns against Italy , the Teutons by the nearer route through Provence , the Cimbri by the longer sweep ...
... Gaul , spreading devastation around them , that the barbarians turned back at last to the true objective , and marched in two vast columns against Italy , the Teutons by the nearer route through Provence , the Cimbri by the longer sweep ...
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