Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, Cato, Pompey, CaesarE. Arnold, 1903 - 348 pages |
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... things in the same light when there was a call for troops to keep back Pæonian or Illyrian raids on Upper Macedon , or Lusitanian raids on Baetica . They grumbled and rioted every time that a new legion had to be raised . This made the ...
... things in the same light when there was a call for troops to keep back Pæonian or Illyrian raids on Upper Macedon , or Lusitanian raids on Baetica . They grumbled and rioted every time that a new legion had to be raised . This made the ...
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... things could not endure much longer . The two problems which had forced themselves to the front needed solution . What was to be done to adapt the constitution to the new needs of empire ? - Was the Senate or the Public Assembly to rule ...
... things could not endure much longer . The two problems which had forced themselves to the front needed solution . What was to be done to adapt the constitution to the new needs of empire ? - Was the Senate or the Public Assembly to rule ...
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... thing was right , " observed this good man , " right of course it must be . " When he grew up , the world conspired to do him honour . He was made an augur far below the usual age . The most respected member of the Senate , chancing to ...
... thing was right , " observed this good man , " right of course it must be . " When he grew up , the world conspired to do him honour . He was made an augur far below the usual age . The most respected member of the Senate , chancing to ...
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... things alone and take the easy path to success that lay before him , and enough self - confidence to think that he ... thing was to be seen in many other parts of Italy . Doubtless the discontented conscripts whom he.
... things alone and take the easy path to success that lay before him , and enough self - confidence to think that he ... thing was to be seen in many other parts of Italy . Doubtless the discontented conscripts whom he.
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... things most likely to send up wheat to 120s . the quarter . Again , it is often said that the free farming class was beginning to decline because of the growth in Italy of great landed estates - the latifundia , worked by chain- gangs ...
... things most likely to send up wheat to 120s . the quarter . Again , it is often said that the free farming class was beginning to decline because of the growth in Italy of great landed estates - the latifundia , worked by chain- gangs ...
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