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Page 14
When he first obtained a magistracy and went to Spain as quaestor to the Consul
Mancinus , chance gave him an utterly unexpected opportunity of saving a
Roman army from destruction ( B . C . 137 ) . The Numantines having defeated
and ...
When he first obtained a magistracy and went to Spain as quaestor to the Consul
Mancinus , chance gave him an utterly unexpected opportunity of saving a
Roman army from destruction ( B . C . 137 ) . The Numantines having defeated
and ...
Page 15
He was only remembered as the saviour of the lives of the defeated legions , and
all the ignominy of the defeat was laid upon the consul . If Tiberius had been
merely fortunate and virtuous , he might have gone through life with honour and ...
He was only remembered as the saviour of the lives of the defeated legions , and
all the ignominy of the defeat was laid upon the consul . If Tiberius had been
merely fortunate and virtuous , he might have gone through life with honour and ...
Page 46
... for the possessores were trying to induce the Senate to declare Tiberius a
public enemy , and since they could not move the consul to action , were
threatening to arm their friends and servants and to sally out into the streets to
murder him .
... for the possessores were trying to induce the Senate to declare Tiberius a
public enemy , and since they could not move the consul to action , were
threatening to arm their friends and servants and to sally out into the streets to
murder him .
Page 47
The news that Flaccus had carried to the assembly seems to have been
somewhat highly coloured , for though the possessores had been denouncing
Tiberius in the bitterest terms , they had not succeeded in moving the consul
Sc¿vola to ...
The news that Flaccus had carried to the assembly seems to have been
somewhat highly coloured , for though the possessores had been denouncing
Tiberius in the bitterest terms , they had not succeeded in moving the consul
Sc¿vola to ...
Page 48
Then Nasica cried aloud that since the consul refused to defend his country , he
adjured all who wished to save Rome and her laws to follow him to the Capitol .
So saying he girt up his toga , and cast the purple border of it over his head , that
...
Then Nasica cried aloud that since the consul refused to defend his country , he
adjured all who wished to save Rome and her laws to follow him to the Capitol .
So saying he girt up his toga , and cast the purple border of it over his head , that
...
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| Title | Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sar |
| Authors | Charles Oman, Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, 1902 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 juuni 2008 |
| Length | 348 pages |
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