Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... looked upon the young man as the most eligible parti in the city . Tiberius saw his first military service in Africa during the Third Punic War . He was taken out under the best possible auspices , as one of the aides - de - camp of his ...
... looked upon the young man as the most eligible parti in the city . Tiberius saw his first military service in Africa during the Third Punic War . He was taken out under the best possible auspices , as one of the aides - de - camp of his ...
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... looked . When an estate has been occupied by the same family for many generations , without any reminder on the part of the landlord that they may one morning be requested to depart , ties both practical and sentimental grow up between ...
... looked . When an estate has been occupied by the same family for many generations , without any reminder on the part of the landlord that they may one morning be requested to depart , ties both practical and sentimental grow up between ...
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... looked upon him as their responsible leader , and would highly resent his retirement from public life . We may suspect also that the discovery of his own power to sway the multitude by his fervid eloquence had somewhat intoxicated him ...
... looked upon him as their responsible leader , and would highly resent his retirement from public life . We may suspect also that the discovery of his own power to sway the multitude by his fervid eloquence had somewhat intoxicated him ...
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... looked well in the Democratic programme . His real scheme for relieving the economic pressure was of quite a different kind . He intended to despatch the ruined Italian farmers over - seas , to form new colonies in the provinces , where ...
... looked well in the Democratic programme . His real scheme for relieving the economic pressure was of quite a different kind . He intended to despatch the ruined Italian farmers over - seas , to form new colonies in the provinces , where ...
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... urban voters who formed the habitual majority in ordinary meetings of the Comitia . In their ignorant selfishness , they looked upon the matter from a very narrow point of view . The individual Roman citizen , they thought , would suffer ...
... urban voters who formed the habitual majority in ordinary meetings of the Comitia . In their ignorant selfishness , they looked upon the matter from a very narrow point of view . The individual Roman citizen , they thought , would suffer ...
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