Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 93
... Metellus [ B.C. 109 ] . The new general was fairly successful , but he did not work quickly enough to please the angry critics of the forum . He took most of Jugurtha's fortresses , but the king fled into the Atlas and the Sahara , and ...
... Metellus [ B.C. 109 ] . The new general was fairly successful , but he did not work quickly enough to please the angry critics of the forum . He took most of Jugurtha's fortresses , but the king fled into the Atlas and the Sahara , and ...
Page 94
... Metellus for the protraction of the war , and promised to end everything in a year if only he were placed in office . He had been provoked by the aristocratic hauteur and quiet insolence of the proconsul , and was thinking quite as much ...
... Metellus for the protraction of the war , and promised to end everything in a year if only he were placed in office . He had been provoked by the aristocratic hauteur and quiet insolence of the proconsul , and was thinking quite as much ...
Page 102
... Metellus , the haughty but honest and capable predecessor of Marius in Numidia , was driven into exile . There seemed to be no length to which Saturninus and Glaucia would not go . But their triumphant violence defeated their own ends ...
... Metellus , the haughty but honest and capable predecessor of Marius in Numidia , was driven into exile . There seemed to be no length to which Saturninus and Glaucia would not go . But their triumphant violence defeated their own ends ...
Page 126
... left behind for their protection two armies under Opti- mates of assured fidelity and ability - his late colleague in the consulship , Pompeius Rufus , and Q. Metellus Pius , SULLA SAILS FOR GREECE 127 the son of the conqueror 126 SULLA.
... left behind for their protection two armies under Opti- mates of assured fidelity and ability - his late colleague in the consulship , Pompeius Rufus , and Q. Metellus Pius , SULLA SAILS FOR GREECE 127 the son of the conqueror 126 SULLA.
Page 141
... Metellus Pius , but by far the most able were two young men , Gn . Pompeius and Marcus Crassus , each of whom had to avenge a father slain in the civil war , the one in a mutiny , the other in the great massacre of B.C. 87. Both were ...
... Metellus Pius , but by far the most able were two young men , Gn . Pompeius and Marcus Crassus , each of whom had to avenge a father slain in the civil war , the one in a mutiny , the other in the great massacre of B.C. 87. Both were ...
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