Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... held up as models , and serve to point the moral and adorn the tale for their young contemporaries , till they are led on to entertain the strongest views as to their own impeccability and infallibility . The cluster of stories which ...
... held up as models , and serve to point the moral and adorn the tale for their young contemporaries , till they are led on to entertain the strongest views as to their own impeccability and infallibility . The cluster of stories which ...
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... held that what had once been made lawful must be morally justifiable , and that if the Comitia passed a law there could be no appeal to equity or common - sense against it . Tiberius saw Italian agriculture languishing , the country ...
... held that what had once been made lawful must be morally justifiable , and that if the Comitia passed a law there could be no appeal to equity or common - sense against it . Tiberius saw Italian agriculture languishing , the country ...
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... held by tenants at will - possessores was their legal name , and possessio their tenure and distribute it up among the lately dispossessed farmers who were sitting idle in the streets of Rome . He announced that , as a matter of grace ...
... held by tenants at will - possessores was their legal name , and possessio their tenure and distribute it up among the lately dispossessed farmers who were sitting idle in the streets of Rome . He announced that , as a matter of grace ...
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... held by possessio , some had been granted out as far back as the Samnite and Pyrrhic wars , and none had been distributed at a later date than Hannibal's expulsion from Italy . It had been held , therefore , by the tenants for terms ...
... held by possessio , some had been granted out as far back as the Samnite and Pyrrhic wars , and none had been distributed at a later date than Hannibal's expulsion from Italy . It had been held , therefore , by the tenants for terms ...
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... held by possessio at its full market value , under the impression - confirmed by the practice of two hundred years - that it was to all intents and purposes held under a perpetual lease . Some , occupying estates of this kind alongside ...
... held by possessio at its full market value , under the impression - confirmed by the practice of two hundred years - that it was to all intents and purposes held under a perpetual lease . Some , occupying estates of this kind alongside ...
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