Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 158
... able and willing to work the system when the old dictator had passed away . For he left behind him a Senate most ... able man could not only reach the front , but stay there . The slow oligarchic rotation , which Sulla had invented , was ...
... able and willing to work the system when the old dictator had passed away . For he left behind him a Senate most ... able man could not only reach the front , but stay there . The slow oligarchic rotation , which Sulla had invented , was ...
Page 166
... able Optimate generals that were in their way hardly less notable than Trebia or Trasimene . The government whose weakness provoked , and whose incapacity protracted , the three disastrous wars with Sertorius , Mithradates , and ...
... able Optimate generals that were in their way hardly less notable than Trebia or Trasimene . The government whose weakness provoked , and whose incapacity protracted , the three disastrous wars with Sertorius , Mithradates , and ...
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... able to report that his task was complete , and that piracy was sup- pressed throughout the Mediterranean . In the winter of 67-66 he was finishing up his work by restoring the Cilician cities , and organising a system of coastguards to ...
... able to report that his task was complete , and that piracy was sup- pressed throughout the Mediterranean . In the winter of 67-66 he was finishing up his work by restoring the Cilician cities , and organising a system of coastguards to ...
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