Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... C¿sar , or even of a Marius and a Pompey , form the main determining element in the history of the day . From the end of the Second Punic War down to the time of the Gracchi , Roman history is very monotonous and uninteresting to the ...
... C¿sar , or even of a Marius and a Pompey , form the main determining element in the history of the day . From the end of the Second Punic War down to the time of the Gracchi , Roman history is very monotonous and uninteresting to the ...
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... C¿sar appeared there were not one but many Romans who saw well enough that the Roman world was out of joint , and tried , each in his more or less futile fashion , to set it right . With some of these states- men it is our task to deal ...
... C¿sar appeared there were not one but many Romans who saw well enough that the Roman world was out of joint , and tried , each in his more or less futile fashion , to set it right . With some of these states- men it is our task to deal ...
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... C¿sar alone . He combined in the most extraordinary degree the old Roman political virtues with the personal vices that the new Rome had borrowed from the Hellenised East . To his credit it must be granted that , throughout his career ...
... C¿sar alone . He combined in the most extraordinary degree the old Roman political virtues with the personal vices that the new Rome had borrowed from the Hellenised East . To his credit it must be granted that , throughout his career ...
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... C¿sar an army which might serve as a counter- poise to that of Pompey . But the Senate succeeded in stopping the design . A little later it would seem that the Democrats were growing more desperate . C¿sar's attack on Rabirius was a ...
... C¿sar an army which might serve as a counter- poise to that of Pompey . But the Senate succeeded in stopping the design . A little later it would seem that the Democrats were growing more desperate . C¿sar's attack on Rabirius was a ...
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... C¿sar were to be the chiefs , were to be granted the military imperium and the right to levy troops . They were to be permitted to select 200 subaltern officers from among the Equites , to have power to sell the public lands in Italy ...
... C¿sar were to be the chiefs , were to be granted the military imperium and the right to levy troops . They were to be permitted to select 200 subaltern officers from among the Equites , to have power to sell the public lands in Italy ...
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