Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... become necessary to enforce the lesson that the biographies of great men are , after all , a most important part of history . It is well to have conceptions of the streams of tendency and the typical developments of every age , but the ...
... become necessary to enforce the lesson that the biographies of great men are , after all , a most important part of history . It is well to have conceptions of the streams of tendency and the typical developments of every age , but the ...
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... becomes of absorbing interest . Ex- ternally the question arises whether the sporadic and ill - compacted empire built up in the last hundred years shall endure , or whether it shall be swept away by the brute force of the Cimbri and ...
... becomes of absorbing interest . Ex- ternally the question arises whether the sporadic and ill - compacted empire built up in the last hundred years shall endure , or whether it shall be swept away by the brute force of the Cimbri and ...
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... mainly a race of farmers dwelling on their own narrow acres ; it was rapidly becoming divorced from the soil , and degenerating into PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION 5 a city - bred proletariate fed from 4 LATER DAYS OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC.
... mainly a race of farmers dwelling on their own narrow acres ; it was rapidly becoming divorced from the soil , and degenerating into PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION 5 a city - bred proletariate fed from 4 LATER DAYS OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC.
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... become cosmopolitan , having absorbed much Greek , or rather Gr¿co - Asiatic , culture and philosophy , and still more of Hellenistic luxury and demoralisation . The very blood of the people was getting largely diluted with a foreign ...
... become cosmopolitan , having absorbed much Greek , or rather Gr¿co - Asiatic , culture and philosophy , and still more of Hellenistic luxury and demoralisation . The very blood of the people was getting largely diluted with a foreign ...
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... become really safe for imperial commerce till the great naval campaign of Pompey in B.C. 67 . The third great responsibility which the Romans assumed , when they annexed great and remote provinces , was that of protecting the civilised ...
... become really safe for imperial commerce till the great naval campaign of Pompey in B.C. 67 . The third great responsibility which the Romans assumed , when they annexed great and remote provinces , was that of protecting the civilised ...
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