Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... Asiatic , culture and philosophy , and still more of Hellenistic luxury and demoralisation . The very blood of the people was getting largely diluted with a foreign strain , owing to the whole- sale manumission of slaves . While Rome ...
... Asiatic , culture and philosophy , and still more of Hellenistic luxury and demoralisation . The very blood of the people was getting largely diluted with a foreign strain , owing to the whole- sale manumission of slaves . While Rome ...
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... Asiatic slaves . Any theory based on the hypothesis that rich men are gratuitously and perversely wicked has found eager acceptance in certain quarters ever since history began . When the land is suffering from poverty and depression ...
... Asiatic slaves . Any theory based on the hypothesis that rich men are gratuitously and perversely wicked has found eager acceptance in certain quarters ever since history began . When the land is suffering from poverty and depression ...
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... the blessings of the whole land ; but on his return the financiers had him accused ( of all things in the world ) of embezzlement and extortion . He THE ASIATIC TITHES 67 was promptly condemned , though he 66 CAIUS GRACCHUS.
... the blessings of the whole land ; but on his return the financiers had him accused ( of all things in the world ) of embezzlement and extortion . He THE ASIATIC TITHES 67 was promptly condemned , though he 66 CAIUS GRACCHUS.
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... ASIATIC TITHES 67 was promptly condemned , though he brought repre- sentatives of every class of the provincials to bear witness that he was the best friend they had ever known and retired to live in honoured exile among the very people ...
... ASIATIC TITHES 67 was promptly condemned , though he brought repre- sentatives of every class of the provincials to bear witness that he was the best friend they had ever known and retired to live in honoured exile among the very people ...
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... Asiatic tithe - farming went on , and gradually ruined that fine province , besides provoking therein such a virulent hatred of Rome , that ( as we have already pointed out ) when the Asiatics got their first chance of revolt , in the ...
... Asiatic tithe - farming went on , and gradually ruined that fine province , besides provoking therein such a virulent hatred of Rome , that ( as we have already pointed out ) when the Asiatics got their first chance of revolt , in the ...
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