Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... successful , but he did not work quickly enough to please the angry critics of the forum . He took most of Jugurtha's fortresses , but the king fled into the Atlas and the Sahara , and maintained a desperate guerilla warfare which ...
... successful , but he did not work quickly enough to please the angry critics of the forum . He took most of Jugurtha's fortresses , but the king fled into the Atlas and the Sahara , and maintained a desperate guerilla warfare which ...
Page 138
... successful years of campaigning in Greece and Asia . He then announced that he was approaching to chastise those who had been guilty of the massacres of the winter of B.C. 87-86 , not to harm the Roman people . He should not meddle with ...
... successful years of campaigning in Greece and Asia . He then announced that he was approaching to chastise those who had been guilty of the massacres of the winter of B.C. 87-86 , not to harm the Roman people . He should not meddle with ...
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... successful despot must have taken all these measures : to keep an armed force in the capital , to endeavour to distract the energies of the multitude into colonisation , were devices as old as Periander and Dionysius . As to the ...
... successful despot must have taken all these measures : to keep an armed force in the capital , to endeavour to distract the energies of the multitude into colonisation , were devices as old as Periander and Dionysius . As to the ...
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