Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, Cato, Pompey, CaesarE. Arnold, 1980 - 348 pages |
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... tribune from office . Tiberius , knowing that he was technically guilty , had no wish to face such a trial . He made an elaborate apologia for all that he had done in a speech which shows strong traces of his studies in the field of ...
... tribune from office . Tiberius , knowing that he was technically guilty , had no wish to face such a trial . He made an elaborate apologia for all that he had done in a speech which shows strong traces of his studies in the field of ...
Page 58
... tribune Octavius , who had opposed Tiberius on the question of the Agrarian Law , and had been deposed by him in such an illegal fashion . The bill now brought forward was to the effect that any magistrate whom the Roman people had ...
... tribune Octavius , who had opposed Tiberius on the question of the Agrarian Law , and had been deposed by him in such an illegal fashion . The bill now brought forward was to the effect that any magistrate whom the Roman people had ...
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... tribune would put himself out of the running for any further political promotion . But in spite of this disability , it was conceivable that an ambitious man might become tribune with the intention not of sacrificing any external career ...
... tribune would put himself out of the running for any further political promotion . But in spite of this disability , it was conceivable that an ambitious man might become tribune with the intention not of sacrificing any external career ...
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