Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarE. Arnold, 1957 - 348 pages |
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Page 46
... friends and servants and to sally out into the streets to murder him . Without waiting to see whether or no the report was exaggerated or the enemy really at hand , Tiberius gave the signal for hostilities by making the preconcerted ...
... friends and servants and to sally out into the streets to murder him . Without waiting to see whether or no the report was exaggerated or the enemy really at hand , Tiberius gave the signal for hostilities by making the preconcerted ...
Page 187
... friend the Tribune Flavius to pass a plebiscitum for the grant of lands to the army of the East , it was defeated by the ... friends to treat the great general with courtesy and ordinary consideration , and to grant his very reasonable ...
... friend the Tribune Flavius to pass a plebiscitum for the grant of lands to the army of the East , it was defeated by the ... friends to treat the great general with courtesy and ordinary consideration , and to grant his very reasonable ...
Page 213
... friends that violence was being used against his sacrosanct person . The mob stormed the platform , and Cato was assailed with sticks and stones . His life was only saved by the consul Muraena , who covered him with his gown , and ...
... friends that violence was being used against his sacrosanct person . The mob stormed the platform , and Cato was assailed with sticks and stones . His life was only saved by the consul Muraena , who covered him with his gown , and ...
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