Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, Cato, Pompey, CaesarE. Arnold, 1903 - 348 pages |
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Page 31
... multitude was moved with the emotional fervour of the harangue , and had no objection to confiscatory measures directed against its old enemies , the governing classes . Clearly Tiberius would not lack supporters , and the angry ...
... multitude was moved with the emotional fervour of the harangue , and had no objection to confiscatory measures directed against its old enemies , the governing classes . Clearly Tiberius would not lack supporters , and the angry ...
Page 35
... multitude was with the reformer . Seventeen tribes , one after another , gave their votes for the proposal ; before the eighteenth had come up , and an actual majority had been registered ( the number of tribes was thirty - five at this ...
... multitude was with the reformer . Seventeen tribes , one after another , gave their votes for the proposal ; before the eighteenth had come up , and an actual majority had been registered ( the number of tribes was thirty - five at this ...
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... multitude which his adver- saries called " the mob " -misera et sordida plebecula , to use the words of a later politician . " " The time for the election of the tribunes for B.C. 132 was now drawing near , and it was suggested to ...
... multitude which his adver- saries called " the mob " -misera et sordida plebecula , to use the words of a later politician . " " The time for the election of the tribunes for B.C. 132 was now drawing near , and it was suggested to ...
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... multitude by his fervid eloquence had somewhat intoxicated him , and that he was not unwilling to accept the post of “ friend of the people . " To accuse him of mere ambition and love of authority would be unfair . Though he was busily ...
... multitude by his fervid eloquence had somewhat intoxicated him , and that he was not unwilling to accept the post of “ friend of the people . " To accuse him of mere ambition and love of authority would be unfair . Though he was busily ...
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... multitude to save their friend from imminent peril of death . His indignant partisans closed around him , vowing that he should be preserved at all costs , and for the next few days he went about with a sort of bodyguard armed with ...
... multitude to save their friend from imminent peril of death . His indignant partisans closed around him , vowing that he should be preserved at all costs , and for the next few days he went about with a sort of bodyguard armed with ...
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