Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... hold opinions at variance with the laws . " Tiberius Gracchus was one of those unfortunate persons who are from their earliest years held up as models , and serve to point the moral and adorn the tale for their young contemporaries ...
... hold opinions at variance with the laws . " Tiberius Gracchus was one of those unfortunate persons who are from their earliest years held up as models , and serve to point the moral and adorn the tale for their young contemporaries ...
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... holds of the nobility , not the barbarian field - hands , whom their owners never saw or regarded . There was a serious danger that Rome might become a Levantine city some day , though she was still far from the generation when men ...
... holds of the nobility , not the barbarian field - hands , whom their owners never saw or regarded . There was a serious danger that Rome might become a Levantine city some day , though she was still far from the generation when men ...
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... hold more than 500 jugera of tillage , or turn out more than 100 oxen or 500 sheep upon the pasture . But by the second century this ancient regula- tion was wholly forgotten ; indeed , it had not been well observed even at the time of ...
... hold more than 500 jugera of tillage , or turn out more than 100 oxen or 500 sheep upon the pasture . But by the second century this ancient regula- tion was wholly forgotten ; indeed , it had not been well observed even at the time of ...
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... hold some of his land by the mere tenure of possessio , and the fact that the tenure was precarious had ( through the state's own fault ) been completely forgotten . It was not merely the financial loss that angered the squatters , but ...
... hold some of his land by the mere tenure of possessio , and the fact that the tenure was precarious had ( through the state's own fault ) been completely forgotten . It was not merely the financial loss that angered the squatters , but ...
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... hold an illegal election meeting , and filled up the place of Octavius in the tribunicial college with an obscure client of his own , one Q. Mummius . There was now nothing to prevent the passing of the Agrarian Law , which was produced ...
... hold an illegal election meeting , and filled up the place of Octavius in the tribunicial college with an obscure client of his own , one Q. Mummius . There was now nothing to prevent the passing of the Agrarian Law , which was produced ...
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