Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... 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 world from the outer barbarian . The conquests of Spain and ...
... 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 world from the outer barbarian . The conquests of Spain and ...
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... campaign . Yet the condition of the Roman borders in the Iberian peninsula was undoubtedly such that these levies were necessary . The Celtiberian and Lusitanian tribes were so warlike and turbulent that the frontier could never stand ...
... campaign . Yet the condition of the Roman borders in the Iberian peninsula was undoubtedly such that these levies were necessary . The Celtiberian and Lusitanian tribes were so warlike and turbulent that the frontier could never stand ...
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... him , and he pondered deeply over it during the leisure hours of his Spanish campaign . He learnt by inquiry that the same thing was to be seen in many other parts of Italy . Doubtless the discontented conscripts , whom.
... him , and he pondered deeply over it during the leisure hours of his Spanish campaign . He learnt by inquiry that the same thing was to be seen in many other parts of Italy . Doubtless the discontented conscripts , whom.
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... campaigns . If On the whole , too much is made of these causes . farming is really paying , it suffers less than might be expected from a protracted war , unless indeed that war is waged within the country - side itself . Hannibal had ...
... campaigns . If On the whole , too much is made of these causes . farming is really paying , it suffers less than might be expected from a protracted war , unless indeed that war is waged within the country - side itself . Hannibal had ...
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... campaign against them that had commenced with the Agrarian Law . He had gathered round himself a knot of partisans who looked upon him as their responsible leader , and would highly resent his retirement from public life . We may ...
... campaign against them that had commenced with the Agrarian Law . He had gathered round himself a knot of partisans who looked upon him as their responsible leader , and would highly resent his retirement from public life . We may ...
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