Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarE. Arnold, 1957 - 348 pages |
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... practically disregard the voice of the Senate for his whole term of office : and if he was chosen for several years in succession , he could go on administering things inuch as he pleased , without being restrained to any appreciable ...
... practically disregard the voice of the Senate for his whole term of office : and if he was chosen for several years in succession , he could go on administering things inuch as he pleased , without being restrained to any appreciable ...
Page 250
Charles Oman. down in B.C. 74 , they had been practically left unmolested by the Roman state , and the boldness caused by this impunity was making them almost as daring as those Algerine rovers of the seventeenth century , whose voyages ...
Charles Oman. down in B.C. 74 , they had been practically left unmolested by the Roman state , and the boldness caused by this impunity was making them almost as daring as those Algerine rovers of the seventeenth century , whose voyages ...
Page 258
... practically powerless . It was in vain that he crushed his few remaining subjects with taxes and re- quisitions to raise a new army . He enrolled , it is true , some thousands of slaves and Scythians , and spoke of trying the fortune of ...
... practically powerless . It was in vain that he crushed his few remaining subjects with taxes and re- quisitions to raise a new army . He enrolled , it is true , some thousands of slaves and Scythians , and spoke of trying the fortune of ...
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