Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... 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 reader . It is little ...
... 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 reader . It is little ...
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... Marius had not appeared , a few more generals like Mallius and Caepio would have let the Cimbri and Teutons into Central Italy , and the exploits of Alaric in A.D. 410 might have been perpetrated by his remote ancestors . Similarly ...
... Marius had not appeared , a few more generals like Mallius and Caepio would have let the Cimbri and Teutons into Central Italy , and the exploits of Alaric in A.D. 410 might have been perpetrated by his remote ancestors . Similarly ...
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... Marius , but some imbecile Optimate of the type of his predecessors Mallius and Caepio , had been in command at Aquae Sextiae or on the Raudian Plain . But Europe escaped the premature coming of the Dark Ages , and the black cloud of ...
... Marius , but some imbecile Optimate of the type of his predecessors Mallius and Caepio , had been in command at Aquae Sextiae or on the Raudian Plain . But Europe escaped the premature coming of the Dark Ages , and the black cloud of ...
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... Marius on the political stage in B.C. 106 , the Democratic programme lay dormant . The history of the time turns mainly on questions of foreign policy , and it was by their incompetent manage- ment of those questions that the Optimates ...
... Marius on the political stage in B.C. 106 , the Democratic programme lay dormant . The history of the time turns mainly on questions of foreign policy , and it was by their incompetent manage- ment of those questions that the Optimates ...
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... light horse . It was at this moment that there at last appeared a serious candidate for the headship of the Democratic party . Caius Marius was a man of a very different type from his predecessors in that post ; he was a.
... light horse . It was at this moment that there at last appeared a serious candidate for the headship of the Democratic party . Caius Marius was a man of a very different type from his predecessors in that post ; he was a.
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