Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... whole political position . He had started as an enthusiast who had one single measure at heart , and merely desired to carry it through : the settlement of the Agrarian Question had seemed to him to be the one really pressing need of ...
... whole political position . He had started as an enthusiast who had one single measure at heart , and merely desired to carry it through : the settlement of the Agrarian Question had seemed to him to be the one really pressing need of ...
Page 143
... whole business came to a head on November 1 , B.C. 82 : while Sulla was facing Carbo in Etruria , and young Marius was still being besieged in Praeneste , the enemy made a vigorous attempt to seize Rome . A division detached by Carbo ...
... whole business came to a head on November 1 , B.C. 82 : while Sulla was facing Carbo in Etruria , and young Marius was still being besieged in Praeneste , the enemy made a vigorous attempt to seize Rome . A division detached by Carbo ...
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... whole of Spain from the Roman Empire . It had already been the death of several incapable Optimate generals , and the ruin of several small armies . The out- look in the West was gloomy . But in the year that followed Sulla's decease it ...
... whole of Spain from the Roman Empire . It had already been the death of several incapable Optimate generals , and the ruin of several small armies . The out- look in the West was gloomy . But in the year that followed Sulla's decease it ...
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