Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... hands of great landholders who worked their farms with serfs , and now the serfs were being replaced by foreign slaves . On the other hand , we must bear in mind that there were many parts of Italy where the agricultural depression does ...
... hands of great landholders who worked their farms with serfs , and now the serfs were being replaced by foreign slaves . On the other hand , we must bear in mind that there were many parts of Italy where the agricultural depression does ...
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... hand , we know that there was a widespread rumour that Catiline was acting under the orders of Crassus . Sallust , no unfriendly witness , allows that a great part of the Senate suspected the great mil- lionaire of being implicated in ...
... hand , we know that there was a widespread rumour that Catiline was acting under the orders of Crassus . Sallust , no unfriendly witness , allows that a great part of the Senate suspected the great mil- lionaire of being implicated in ...
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... hand another , which might lead him to the Caucasus and the Caspian , perhaps even to the Tanais or the Erythræan ... hand , but he never took in hand any task that was rash or unnecessary . When he first marched against Mithradates ...
... hand another , which might lead him to the Caucasus and the Caspian , perhaps even to the Tanais or the Erythræan ... hand , but he never took in hand any task that was rash or unnecessary . When he first marched against Mithradates ...
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