Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... hands of Oriental rulers , and have shared the fate which overtook Hellenistic Babylon and Bactria , by losing its touch with Western civilisation under a dynasty almost as thinly veneered with Greek culture as the Parthian Arsacid¿ or ...
... hands of Oriental rulers , and have shared the fate which overtook Hellenistic Babylon and Bactria , by losing its touch with Western civilisation under a dynasty almost as thinly veneered with Greek culture as the Parthian Arsacid¿ or ...
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... hand , in ready and constant communication with the city . They were actually visible from the headlands of Italy — mere broken- off fragments of the peninsula . An order could without much difficulty reach them in a few days : the ...
... hand , in ready and constant communication with the city . They were actually visible from the headlands of Italy — mere broken- off fragments of the peninsula . An order could without much difficulty reach them in a few days : the ...
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... hand , could govern , but each only for his short year of office , and the work of each successor gener- ally ( and often deliberately ) undid the work of his pre- decessor . The responsibilities of empire , of which we have made ...
... hand , could govern , but each only for his short year of office , and the work of each successor gener- ally ( and often deliberately ) undid the work of his pre- decessor . The responsibilities of empire , of which we have made ...
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... hand in marriage without waiting to be asked . When Appius came home that night , he called out to his wife , as soon as he was inside the door , that he had betrothed their daughter . " Why in such a hurry , " asked the lady , " unless ...
... hand in marriage without waiting to be asked . When Appius came home that night , he called out to his wife , as soon as he was inside the door , that he had betrothed their daughter . " Why in such a hurry , " asked the lady , " unless ...
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... wife or children to keep , and every pair of hands represented only one mouth . Moreover , he had no standard of comfort whatever ; he had to live as his THE RISE OF RANCHING 19 master chose , herded together 18 TIBERIUS GRACCHUS.
... wife or children to keep , and every pair of hands represented only one mouth . Moreover , he had no standard of comfort whatever ; he had to live as his THE RISE OF RANCHING 19 master chose , herded together 18 TIBERIUS GRACCHUS.
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