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 202
... never attempted to attack the Parthian in the open with an army of the old Roman type . They took into the field large bodies of cavalry and tens of thousands of foot - archers . These last proved especially successful against the ...
... never attempted to attack the Parthian in the open with an army of the old Roman type . They took into the field large bodies of cavalry and tens of thousands of foot - archers . These last proved especially successful against the ...
Page 213
... never carried . Probably Cæsar was as pleased at the fiasco as was Cato himself , for he can never have intended that Pompey should really be recalled . He had merely wished to provoke bad blood between Pompeians and Optimates , and in ...
... never carried . Probably Cæsar was as pleased at the fiasco as was Cato himself , for he can never have intended that Pompey should really be recalled . He had merely wished to provoke bad blood between Pompeians and Optimates , and in ...
Page 256
... never seems to have had more than 40,000 or 45,000 men . He was operating across utterly unknown country ; each ... never desisted from a task that he had taken in hand , but he never took in hand any task that was rash or unnecessary ...
... never seems to have had more than 40,000 or 45,000 men . He was operating across utterly unknown country ; each ... never desisted from a task that he had taken in hand , but he never took in hand any task that was rash or unnecessary ...
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Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic the Gracchi: Sulla, Crassus ... Sir Charles Oman No preview available - 2015 |
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