Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... Italy , and the exploits of Alaric in A.D. 410 might have been perpetrated by his remote ancestors . Similarly , but for Sulla the Nearer East might perchance have passed back , seven hundred years before the appointed time , into the ...
... Italy , and the exploits of Alaric in A.D. 410 might have been perpetrated by his remote ancestors . Similarly , but for Sulla the Nearer East might perchance have passed back , seven hundred years before the appointed time , into the ...
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... Italy . In B.C. 200 Rome was still in the main a city - state of the old type , though she had already begun to ... Italian town , little affected as yet , either in blood or in thought , by external influences . The elder Cato , with ...
... Italy . In B.C. 200 Rome was still in the main a city - state of the old type , though she had already begun to ... Italian town , little affected as yet , either in blood or in thought , by external influences . The elder Cato , with ...
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... Italy — mere broken- off fragments of the peninsula . An order could without much difficulty reach them in a few days : the Senate and People could make their will felt by governors and generals in districts so close to themselves . The ...
... Italy — mere broken- off fragments of the peninsula . An order could without much difficulty reach them in a few days : the Senate and People could make their will felt by governors and generals in districts so close to themselves . The ...
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... Italy . The ordinary method was to requisition a fleet from the maritime allies of the state , who rendered unwilling and inefficient service . Hence it came to pass that though many Roman expe- ditions had been sent against the pirates ...
... Italy . The ordinary method was to requisition a fleet from the maritime allies of the state , who rendered unwilling and inefficient service . Hence it came to pass that though many Roman expe- ditions had been sent against the pirates ...
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... Italy and Rome herself were — as we shall see - tending to internal decay , though certain indi- vidual Romans and Italians were drawing huge profits from the newly acquired empire , the whole Mediterranean world seemed doomed to ...
... Italy and Rome herself were — as we shall see - tending to internal decay , though certain indi- vidual Romans and Italians were drawing huge profits from the newly acquired empire , the whole Mediterranean world seemed doomed to ...
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