Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... keeping the police of the high seas and suppressing piracy . This task had in earlier centuries been to some extent dis ... keep up a permanent national fleet , both because it was expensive , and because they themselves disliked the sea ...
... keeping the police of the high seas and suppressing piracy . This task had in earlier centuries been to some extent dis ... keep up a permanent national fleet , both because it was expensive , and because they themselves disliked the sea ...
Page 8
... keep in check . The Roman , their heir by right of conquest , discharged this duty very spasmodically and inefficiently . The main reason for this was the deep- rooted dislike of distant and prolonged foreign service among the ...
... keep in check . The Roman , their heir by right of conquest , discharged this duty very spasmodically and inefficiently . The main reason for this was the deep- rooted dislike of distant and prolonged foreign service among the ...
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... keep back Pæonian or Illyrian raids on Upper Macedon , or Lusitanian raids on Baetica . They grumbled and rioted every time that a new legion had to be raised . This made the Senate chary of calling out conscripts , or keeping them long ...
... keep back Pæonian or Illyrian raids on Upper Macedon , or Lusitanian raids on Baetica . They grumbled and rioted every time that a new legion had to be raised . This made the Senate chary of calling out conscripts , or keeping them long ...
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... no 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.
... no 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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... keep , and , how- ever frugal his fare and garb , they were at least better than those of the slave . The farm , if bought at a suffici- ently low figure , might be able to pay the capitalist long after it had ceased to pay the ...
... keep , and , how- ever frugal his fare and garb , they were at least better than those of the slave . The farm , if bought at a suffici- ently low figure , might be able to pay the capitalist long after it had ceased to pay the ...
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