Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... ambitious proconsuls came to take advantage of this fact , and began to make or break treaties , to enter into wars , and to make conquests at their good pleasure . The Senate was sometimes provoked into disowning and annulling their ...
... ambitious proconsuls came to take advantage of this fact , and began to make or break treaties , to enter into wars , and to make conquests at their good pleasure . The Senate was sometimes provoked into disowning and annulling their ...
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... ambitious person who had succeeded in obtaining the office . The quaintest tales may be collected , by those curious in the subject , concerning the use of the veto in these latter days . But on the whole the constitution had been saved ...
... ambitious person who had succeeded in obtaining the office . The quaintest tales may be collected , by those curious in the subject , concerning the use of the veto in these latter days . But on the whole the constitution had been saved ...
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... ambition and love of authority would be unfair . Though he was busily engaged in breaking up the old constitution of Rome , he does not seem to have been aware of the fact . By legis- lating on such important matters as the Agrarian Law ...
... ambition and love of authority would be unfair . Though he was busily engaged in breaking up the old constitution of Rome , he does not seem to have been aware of the fact . By legis- lating on such important matters as the Agrarian Law ...
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... ambition and revenge , rather than from benevolence and patriotism . We shall see that all his career was coloured by these motives , a fact which accounts for the many deliberately immoral measures that are to be found in his ...
... ambition and revenge , rather than from benevolence and patriotism . We shall see that all his career was coloured by these motives , a fact which accounts for the many deliberately immoral measures that are to be found in his ...
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... Ambition and revenge were probably at the bottom of his resolve to a greater measure than he himself was aware . Whatever was the spark that kindled this eager and susceptible temperament into a flame , there can be no doubt that , from ...
... Ambition and revenge were probably at the bottom of his resolve to a greater measure than he himself was aware . Whatever was the spark that kindled this eager and susceptible temperament into a flame , there can be no doubt that , from ...
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