Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... 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 ...
Page 331
... never have been fought at all . For southern Spain only slipped out of Cæsar's hands after Pharsalus had been won ; and if Africa had been reduced in the autumn of B.C. 48 , the two sons of Pompey would never have had their chance of ...
... never have been fought at all . For southern Spain only slipped out of Cæsar's hands after Pharsalus had been won ; and if Africa had been reduced in the autumn of B.C. 48 , the two sons of Pompey would never have had their chance of ...
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... never resumed the attack from without , if Christianity had never arisen to give new ideals from within , the Roman Empire would have gradually sunk into a self - satisfied stationary civilisation of the Chinese type . Whether it be ...
... never resumed the attack from without , if Christianity had never arisen to give new ideals from within , the Roman Empire would have gradually sunk into a self - satisfied stationary civilisation of the Chinese type . Whether it be ...
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