Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, Cato, Pompey, CaesarE. Arnold, 1980 - 348 pages |
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... become a hopeless failure . For while the Roman market was flooded with foreign wheat , there was no such ... become more interesting than lucrative ; he kept up his farms by way of amuse- ment , but put his spare capital into the ...
... become a hopeless failure . For while the Roman market was flooded with foreign wheat , there was no such ... become more interesting than lucrative ; he kept up his farms by way of amuse- ment , but put his spare capital into the ...
Page 150
... become tribune with the intention not of sacrificing any external career , but of being perpetually re - elected to this office like Caius Gracchus of old . Sulla provided against this possibility by repealing the law of B.C. 129 ...
... become tribune with the intention not of sacrificing any external career , but of being perpetually re - elected to this office like Caius Gracchus of old . Sulla provided against this possibility by repealing the law of B.C. 129 ...
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... become a defender of the consti- tution . His anger came to a head when at the instigation of his old enemy and rival , Lucullus , the Senate passed a decree that an elaborate inquiry should be made into all his doings in Asia before ...
... become a defender of the consti- tution . His anger came to a head when at the instigation of his old enemy and rival , Lucullus , the Senate passed a decree that an elaborate inquiry should be made into all his doings in Asia before ...
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