Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... fighting abroad , to maintain her existence and her suze- rainty over the whole Mediterranean basin , she was being torn at home by a great constitutional struggle which pierced to the very roots of her being . This was the problem of ...
... fighting abroad , to maintain her existence and her suze- rainty over the whole Mediterranean basin , she was being torn at home by a great constitutional struggle which pierced to the very roots of her being . This was the problem of ...
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... fighting at the head of a band of revolted slaves . Yet , in spite of his studies in comparative politics and Greek philosophy , Tiberius , by a strange contradiction , remained so much a THE " PUBLIC LAND " 25 Roman legalist , that 24 ...
... fighting at the head of a band of revolted slaves . Yet , in spite of his studies in comparative politics and Greek philosophy , Tiberius , by a strange contradiction , remained so much a THE " PUBLIC LAND " 25 Roman legalist , that 24 ...
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... fight till the last gasp , and to fight in the old constitu- tional Roman fashion , by finding one of the tribunes who sympathised with them , and inducing him to put his veto on his colleague's proposed Agrarian Law . Now the ...
... fight till the last gasp , and to fight in the old constitu- tional Roman fashion , by finding one of the tribunes who sympathised with them , and inducing him to put his veto on his colleague's proposed Agrarian Law . Now the ...
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... fight for their ancestral sepulchres and their domestic gods . For in these days how many are there of the rank and file who possess an altar that their forefathers reared , or a sepul- chre in which their ashes rest ? They fight and ...
... fight for their ancestral sepulchres and their domestic gods . For in these days how many are there of the rank and file who possess an altar that their forefathers reared , or a sepul- chre in which their ashes rest ? They fight and ...
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... fight to the death , if they wished to retain the broad lands which they had so long regarded as their own . Accordingly they had got their instrument ready . A tribune was at hand , prepared to veto the law . He was named M. Octavius ...
... fight to the death , if they wished to retain the broad lands which they had so long regarded as their own . Accordingly they had got their instrument ready . A tribune was at hand , prepared to veto the law . He was named M. Octavius ...
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