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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 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 TIBERIUS
GRACCHUS.
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... kept on a large scale , could pay , long after corn had become a hopeless
failure . For while the Roman market was flooded with foreign wheat , there was
no such competition in the matter of live stock . Ancient merchant ships were not
large ...
... kept on a large scale , could pay , long after corn had become a hopeless
failure . For while the Roman market was flooded with foreign wheat , there was
no such competition in the matter of live stock . Ancient merchant ships were not
large ...
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The ruined farmers drifted to Rome , to live on the cheap corn , the doles of
patrons , the frequent largesses of the state , and the distributions of candidates
for magistracies . These migrants GROWTH OF THE URBAN PROLETARIATE 23
by ...
The ruined farmers drifted to Rome , to live on the cheap corn , the doles of
patrons , the frequent largesses of the state , and the distributions of candidates
for magistracies . These migrants GROWTH OF THE URBAN PROLETARIATE 23
by ...
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They fully believed that their ruin had come not from economic causes , but from
the greed of the rich ; they thought that , if started again with the state ' s aid and
protection , they might yet live off the land . The purely urban multitude was ...
They fully believed that their ruin had come not from economic causes , but from
the greed of the rich ; they thought that , if started again with the state ' s aid and
protection , they might yet live off the land . The purely urban multitude was ...
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He had ruined too many prominent men to be able ever again to live in quiet .
Angry senators insulted him in the streets , and asked him inconvenient
constitutional questions on public occasions . No story was too silly or malignant
to be told ...
He had ruined too many prominent men to be able ever again to live in quiet .
Angry senators insulted him in the streets , and asked him inconvenient
constitutional questions on public occasions . No story was too silly or malignant
to be told ...
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| Title | Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sar |
| Author | Charles Oman |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, 1902 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 juuni 2008 |
| Length | 348 pages |
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