Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... Comitia nor the Senate was really competent to rule the new empire which they had acquired . If there was anything more preposterous than the theory of the Optimates ( I mean that the government of the Roman world should be conducted by ...
... Comitia nor the Senate was really competent to rule the new empire which they had acquired . If there was anything more preposterous than the theory of the Optimates ( I mean that the government of the Roman world should be conducted by ...
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... Comitia was fast degenerating , should supersede the senatorial oligarchy as administrators of the Empire . Complicated with this great constitutional question , as to where sovereignty should reside at Rome , were a number of social ...
... Comitia was fast degenerating , should supersede the senatorial oligarchy as administrators of the Empire . Complicated with this great constitutional question , as to where sovereignty should reside at Rome , were a number of social ...
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... . Accord- ingly , the statesman who wished to carry his law before the Comitia had normally to face only the plebs urbana . On rare occasions the outvoters might alter the composi- tion of the assembly , but the everyday audience of.
... . Accord- ingly , the statesman who wished to carry his law before the Comitia had normally to face only the plebs urbana . On rare occasions the outvoters might alter the composi- tion of the assembly , but the everyday audience of.
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... Comitia passed a law there could be no appeal to equity or common - sense against it . Tiberius saw Italian agriculture languishing , the country- side occupied more and more every year by the huge estates of the capitalists , while in ...
... Comitia passed a law there could be no appeal to equity or common - sense against it . Tiberius saw Italian agriculture languishing , the country- side occupied more and more every year by the huge estates of the capitalists , while in ...
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... Comitia in spite of the Fathers . " With this , apparently , as his sole programme , he stood for the tribunate in B.C. 134 , was easily elected , and entered into office in the succeeding year . The first announcement of his intention ...
... Comitia in spite of the Fathers . " With this , apparently , as his sole programme , he stood for the tribunate in B.C. 134 , was easily elected , and entered into office in the succeeding year . The first announcement of his intention ...
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