Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 113
... Cinna supplied enough of a war - cry to unite the turbulent elements in Rome , and that the populares could continue to exist even without a popular programme . Hitherto all the really important constitutional and economic quarrels ...
... Cinna supplied enough of a war - cry to unite the turbulent elements in Rome , and that the populares could continue to exist even without a popular programme . Hitherto all the really important constitutional and economic quarrels ...
Page 127
... Cinna , proved too weak for the task of controlling his exuberant partner , when the latter openly took arms on behalf of the Democrats . A sporadic civil war began to spread all over Italy , which became really formidable when Cinna ...
... Cinna , proved too weak for the task of controlling his exuberant partner , when the latter openly took arms on behalf of the Democrats . A sporadic civil war began to spread all over Italy , which became really formidable when Cinna ...
Page 128
... Cinna , glutted with blood , now turned from the work of massacre to the more practical task of taking measures for the suppression of Sulla , who had sailed for the East in the previous year to take up the war against Mithradates ...
... Cinna , glutted with blood , now turned from the work of massacre to the more practical task of taking measures for the suppression of Sulla , who had sailed for the East in the previous year to take up the war against Mithradates ...
Page 129
... Cinna . Many men would have turned back to crush the rebels at home before grappling with the external enemies of the state . But Sulla thought even more of the danger to the Roman empire than of the danger of the Optimate party ...
... Cinna . Many men would have turned back to crush the rebels at home before grappling with the external enemies of the state . But Sulla thought even more of the danger to the Roman empire than of the danger of the Optimate party ...
Page 133
... Cinna and his friends had not the magnanimity of Sulla , and would not reserve their swords for the foreigner , or defer civil strife till the state was free from external enemies . Fortunately for the victor of Chaeronea , Flaccus ...
... Cinna and his friends had not the magnanimity of Sulla , and would not reserve their swords for the foreigner , or defer civil strife till the state was free from external enemies . Fortunately for the victor of Chaeronea , Flaccus ...
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