Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, Cato, Pompey, CaesarE. Arnold, 1980 - 348 pages |
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Page 69
... completing his legislation in behalf of the Equites and in developing his great colonial schemes , especially that for ... complete hold over the Comitia than either of them had ever possessed . The project was one which was eminently ...
... completing his legislation in behalf of the Equites and in developing his great colonial schemes , especially that for ... complete hold over the Comitia than either of them had ever possessed . The project was one which was eminently ...
Page 254
... complete , and that piracy was sup- pressed throughout the Mediterranean . In the winter of : 67-66 he was finishing up his work by restoring the Cilician cities , and organising a system of coastguards to preserve the peace of the seas ...
... complete , and that piracy was sup- pressed throughout the Mediterranean . In the winter of : 67-66 he was finishing up his work by restoring the Cilician cities , and organising a system of coastguards to preserve the peace of the seas ...
Page 284
... complete circum- vallation round the Republican camp he was utterly foiled . Waiting till the line - some twenty miles long - grew over - thin , Pompey burst out one morning , broke through the entrenchments , drove off the legions ...
... complete circum- vallation round the Republican camp he was utterly foiled . Waiting till the line - some twenty miles long - grew over - thin , Pompey burst out one morning , broke through the entrenchments , drove off the legions ...
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