Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CaesarBooks for Libraries Press, 1971 - 348 pages |
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Page 71
... find that it might be truer to call it " the rabble . " The very moderate and statesmanlike form in which Caius proposed to deal with the franchise question was to bestow the full citizenship on the Latins , and the rights hitherto held ...
... find that it might be truer to call it " the rabble . " The very moderate and statesmanlike form in which Caius proposed to deal with the franchise question was to bestow the full citizenship on the Latins , and the rights hitherto held ...
Page 114
... find him adding to the many laws which he passed one intended for the private and personal benefit of one of his friends . It was a decree appointing Caius Marius to the command of the army which was to be sent to the East to repel King ...
... find him adding to the many laws which he passed one intended for the private and personal benefit of one of his friends . It was a decree appointing Caius Marius to the command of the army which was to be sent to the East to repel King ...
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... the family views : we find him living quietly under the Demo- cratic régime of B.C. 87-84 , and his sister Julia had been married to no less a person than Marius himself , a fact which may have gone far to determine her brother's.
... the family views : we find him living quietly under the Demo- cratic régime of B.C. 87-84 , and his sister Julia had been married to no less a person than Marius himself , a fact which may have gone far to determine her brother's.
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