Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... less futile fashion , to set it right . With some of these states- men it is our task to deal . Their successive biographies show well enough the course of the whole history of the later Republic ; there is no gap between man and man ...
... less futile fashion , to set it right . With some of these states- men it is our task to deal . Their successive biographies show well enough the course of the whole history of the later Republic ; there is no gap between man and man ...
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... less of ancestral landmarks , was as incomprehensible as he was distasteful to the average Roman mind . It is well to remember the delightful comment of the elder Cato , who having been induced in his old age to read some of Plato's ...
... less of ancestral landmarks , was as incomprehensible as he was distasteful to the average Roman mind . It is well to remember the delightful comment of the elder Cato , who having been induced in his old age to read some of Plato's ...
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... less than might be expected from a protracted war , unless indeed that war is waged within the country - side itself . Hannibal had departed seventy years before , and in a healthy state of agriculture the traces of his sojourn would ...
... less than might be expected from a protracted war , unless indeed that war is waged within the country - side itself . Hannibal had departed seventy years before , and in a healthy state of agriculture the traces of his sojourn would ...
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... less rapid , willing , and thorough work than the freeman . Why then should the capitalist be so eager to buy out the farmer , if immediately on purchase the productive value of the purchased land went down ? Surely he would have found ...
... less rapid , willing , and thorough work than the freeman . Why then should the capitalist be so eager to buy out the farmer , if immediately on purchase the productive value of the purchased land went down ? Surely he would have found ...
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... less than the ruling rate for the commodity of which it is trying to get rid . The Sicilian corn was purchased by the rich grain dealers of Rome at a quotation which enabled them to put it upon the market at an absurdly low figure . The ...
... less than the ruling rate for the commodity of which it is trying to get rid . The Sicilian corn was purchased by the rich grain dealers of Rome at a quotation which enabled them to put it upon the market at an absurdly low figure . The ...
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