Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, Cato, Pompey, CaesarE. Arnold, 1980 - 348 pages |
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Page 193
... triumvirs who did not try to save Cicero from the worst extreme of exile , by pressing on him an honourable excuse for absence from Rome , in the shape of a legateship or a " free commission " to travel . That the orator himself ...
... triumvirs who did not try to save Cicero from the worst extreme of exile , by pressing on him an honourable excuse for absence from Rome , in the shape of a legateship or a " free commission " to travel . That the orator himself ...
Page 222
... triumvirs determined to use violence , and on the day of the election prepared gangs of Clodius's ruffians to block the polling - places at daybreak . But Cato and Domitius went down to the Campus Martius with torches at midnight to ...
... triumvirs determined to use violence , and on the day of the election prepared gangs of Clodius's ruffians to block the polling - places at daybreak . But Cato and Domitius went down to the Campus Martius with torches at midnight to ...
Page 266
... triumvirs could , when they pleased , make their power felt , and do anything that they might choose : but for a space they did not assert themselves , and allowed the local politics of the streets and the Senate - house to drift on in ...
... triumvirs could , when they pleased , make their power felt , and do anything that they might choose : but for a space they did not assert themselves , and allowed the local politics of the streets and the Senate - house to drift on in ...
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