Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, Cato, Pompey, CaesarE. Arnold, 1903 - 348 pages |
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... enemies . There was no finality till the Atlantic was reached , and the last Galician and Cantabrian mountaineers maintained their ferocious independence till the days of Julius Cæsar and Augustus . In the Balkan peninsula the state of ...
... enemies . There was no finality till the Atlantic was reached , and the last Galician and Cantabrian mountaineers maintained their ferocious independence till the days of Julius Cæsar and Augustus . In the Balkan peninsula the state of ...
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... enemy . But the outer world was singularly destitute of strong men at this period . Jugurtha and Mithradates , in spite of all the trouble that they gave , were very third - rate personalities . And the one truly dangerous foe that ...
... enemy . But the outer world was singularly destitute of strong men at this period . Jugurtha and Mithradates , in spite of all the trouble that they gave , were very third - rate personalities . And the one truly dangerous foe that ...
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... enemies . Sometimes this land was divided up into small farms for Roman citizens who engaged to settle thereon , sometimes a colony was planted on it , sometimes it was sold . But very often the state did not cede it in full property to ...
... enemies . Sometimes this land was divided up into small farms for Roman citizens who engaged to settle thereon , sometimes a colony was planted on it , sometimes it was sold . But very often the state did not cede it in full property to ...
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... enemies , the governing classes . Clearly Tiberius would not lack supporters , and the angry capitalists soon saw that they would have to fight to the death , if they wished to retain the broad lands which they had so long regarded as ...
... enemies , the governing classes . Clearly Tiberius would not lack supporters , and the angry capitalists soon saw that they would have to fight to the death , if they wished to retain the broad lands which they had so long regarded as ...
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... enemies of having poisoned him , and made 1 The man died with symptoms which his friends could not understand , and spots broke out on his body . This in Roman folk - lore was supposed to betoken poison , but to us it has the opposite ...
... enemies of having poisoned him , and made 1 The man died with symptoms which his friends could not understand , and spots broke out on his body . This in Roman folk - lore was supposed to betoken poison , but to us it has the opposite ...
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