Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... failed to secure . The con- stitution imposed on each conquered region , by the sena- torial commission which drew up the lex provinci¿ after its annexation , was often wisely designed and reasonable . But when once it was formulated ...
... failed to secure . The con- stitution imposed on each conquered region , by the sena- torial commission which drew up the lex provinci¿ after its annexation , was often wisely designed and reasonable . But when once it was formulated ...
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... failure . For while the Roman market was flooded with foreign wheat , there was no such competition in the matter of live stock . Ancient merchant ships were not large , swift , or commodious enough for the transport of beasts on an ...
... failure . For while the Roman market was flooded with foreign wheat , there was no such competition in the matter of live stock . Ancient merchant ships were not large , swift , or commodious enough for the transport of beasts on an ...
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... failed ( as was natural ) to content them . How could it , when they were to be evicted from the main part of their land entirely in opposition to their own desire ? Very reasonably , from their own point of view , they resolved to ...
... failed ( as was natural ) to content them . How could it , when they were to be evicted from the main part of their land entirely in opposition to their own desire ? Very reasonably , from their own point of view , they resolved to ...
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... failed , fell away from his Democratic beliefs , and relapsed , for reasons obscure but probably discreditable , into the ranks of the Optimates . A few years later , however , the bill was passed by other hands . Flaccus , who was a ...
... failed , fell away from his Democratic beliefs , and relapsed , for reasons obscure but probably discreditable , into the ranks of the Optimates . A few years later , however , the bill was passed by other hands . Flaccus , who was a ...
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... failed to maintain themselves as agriculturists , they would have a good second chance of succeeding as traders , for it was inevitable that some great town must grow up again at a point of the Medi- terranean so central and so well ...
... failed to maintain themselves as agriculturists , they would have a good second chance of succeeding as traders , for it was inevitable that some great town must grow up again at a point of the Medi- terranean so central and so well ...
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