Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... than the theory of the Optimates ( I mean that the government of the Roman world should be conducted by a small ring of narrow - minded noble families ) , it was certainly the opposite theory of the Democrats - that the mixed multi-
... than the theory of the Optimates ( I mean that the government of the Roman world should be conducted by a small ring of narrow - minded noble families ) , it was certainly the opposite theory of the Democrats - that the mixed multi-
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... Democrats - that the mixed multi- tude of paupers and aliens into which the Comitia was fast degenerating , should supersede the senatorial oligarchy as administrators of the Empire . Complicated with this great constitutional question ...
... Democrats - that the mixed multi- tude of paupers and aliens into which the Comitia was fast degenerating , should supersede the senatorial oligarchy as administrators of the Empire . Complicated with this great constitutional question ...
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... Democrats as by the Democrats against the Senate . Sometimes it was used for purely personal ends by any vain , or eccentric , or ambitious person who had succeeded in obtaining the office . The quaintest tales may be collected , by ...
... Democrats as by the Democrats against the Senate . Sometimes it was used for purely personal ends by any vain , or eccentric , or ambitious person who had succeeded in obtaining the office . The quaintest tales may be collected , by ...
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... Democratic platform " of the next fifty years . The planks of it included ( 1 ) the relaxa- tion of the terms of military service ; ( 2 ) the granting of a right of appeal from all law - courts to the sovereign people assembled in the ...
... Democratic platform " of the next fifty years . The planks of it included ( 1 ) the relaxa- tion of the terms of military service ; ( 2 ) the granting of a right of appeal from all law - courts to the sovereign people assembled in the ...
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... of a second year of democratic agitation appalled them . Accordingly they bent all their efforts to the end of frustrating his election . Owing to the season of the TIBERIUS SEEKS RE - ELECTION 43 year , it was 42 TIBERIUS GRACCHUS.
... of a second year of democratic agitation appalled them . Accordingly they bent all their efforts to the end of frustrating his election . Owing to the season of the TIBERIUS SEEKS RE - ELECTION 43 year , it was 42 TIBERIUS GRACCHUS.
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