Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, Cato, Pompey, CaesarE. Arnold, 1903 - 348 pages |
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... kings of the house of Antigonus in the other peninsula had been wont to drive back and to keep in check . The Roman , their heir by right of conquest , discharged this duty very spasmodically and inefficiently . The main reason for this ...
... kings of the house of Antigonus in the other peninsula had been wont to drive back and to keep in check . The Roman , their heir by right of conquest , discharged this duty very spasmodically and inefficiently . The main reason for this ...
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... king of Pergamus . He was an eccentric and tyrannical prince , who divided his time between the study of the fine arts and the extermination of his relatives . When he died suddenly of sunstroke , it was found that he had left his whole ...
... king of Pergamus . He was an eccentric and tyrannical prince , who divided his time between the study of the fine arts and the extermination of his relatives . When he died suddenly of sunstroke , it was found that he had left his whole ...
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... king of Rome ! The most threatening symptom , however , for Tiberius was that several resolute enemies announced that they intended to impeach him for majestas , for unconstitutional conduct amounting to high treason , the day that his ...
... king of Rome ! The most threatening symptom , however , for Tiberius was that several resolute enemies announced that they intended to impeach him for majestas , for unconstitutional conduct amounting to high treason , the day that his ...
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... kings of old held the most awful of magistracies , yet Tarquin was expelled . Can anything be more holy and venerable than the Vestal Virgins who keep the perpetual fire ; yet if one of them breaks her vows she is buried alive . So ...
... kings of old held the most awful of magistracies , yet Tarquin was expelled . Can anything be more holy and venerable than the Vestal Virgins who keep the perpetual fire ; yet if one of them breaks her vows she is buried alive . So ...
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... kings . He had stumbled over a corpse , and as he strove to rise , a senator named Publius Satureius beat out his brains with a footstool . MURDER OF TIBERIUS 49 Thus miserably perished a young man 48 TIBERIUS GRACCHUS.
... kings . He had stumbled over a corpse , and as he strove to rise , a senator named Publius Satureius beat out his brains with a footstool . MURDER OF TIBERIUS 49 Thus miserably perished a young man 48 TIBERIUS GRACCHUS.
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