Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, Cato, Pompey, CaesarE. Arnold, 1980 - 348 pages |
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... CORN - DOLE INSTITUTED 59 appears to have been simply and solely intended to com- mend him to the populace , as the true friend who had once and for all filled their stomachs . He proposed a lex . frumentaria , which provided that corn ...
... CORN - DOLE INSTITUTED 59 appears to have been simply and solely intended to com- mend him to the populace , as the true friend who had once and for all filled their stomachs . He proposed a lex . frumentaria , which provided that corn ...
Page 60
... corn sold at half - price ? If Caius really supposed that it was any use to send forth new farmers , at the moment when he was underbidding them by the institution of the corn - dole , he must have been an idiot . If he set the Land ...
... corn sold at half - price ? If Caius really supposed that it was any use to send forth new farmers , at the moment when he was underbidding them by the institution of the corn - dole , he must have been an idiot . If he set the Land ...
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... corn- dole , by adding to the amount of state grain which each citizen was allowed to purchase every month . It was represented to him that the treasury could not stand the expense , wherefore he enacted that the coinage should be ...
... corn- dole , by adding to the amount of state grain which each citizen was allowed to purchase every month . It was represented to him that the treasury could not stand the expense , wherefore he enacted that the coinage should be ...
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