Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 44
... went about with an organised band of satellites behind him , would some day blossom out into a tyrant , seize the Capitol , and massacre the Senate . TIBERIUS PREPARES TO FIGHT 45 We may be perfectly certain 44 TIBERIUS GRACCHUS.
... went about with an organised band of satellites behind him , would some day blossom out into a tyrant , seize the Capitol , and massacre the Senate . TIBERIUS PREPARES TO FIGHT 45 We may be perfectly certain 44 TIBERIUS GRACCHUS.
Page 49
... massacre on the other . For the course that events took Gracchus himself must bear the responsibility : his enemies were greedy and narrow- minded , but he himself was harsh , reckless , and pro- vocative beyond measure . When , in a ...
... massacre on the other . For the course that events took Gracchus himself must bear the responsibility : his enemies were greedy and narrow- minded , but he himself was harsh , reckless , and pro- vocative beyond measure . When , in a ...
Page 68
... massacred in a single day the 80,000 Roman traders , officials , and tax - collectors who dwelt among them . The great tribune was re - elected for a second term of office without any difficulty , and his work in B.C. 122 was a ...
... massacred in a single day the 80,000 Roman traders , officials , and tax - collectors who dwelt among them . The great tribune was re - elected for a second term of office without any difficulty , and his work in B.C. 122 was a ...
Page 84
... massacre ; no less than three thousand persons are said to have been slain , and their bodies cast into the Tiber . Fulvius Flaccus and his elder son Marcus hid themselves in the house of a client , but when their pursuers threatened to ...
... massacre ; no less than three thousand persons are said to have been slain , and their bodies cast into the Tiber . Fulvius Flaccus and his elder son Marcus hid themselves in the house of a client , but when their pursuers threatened to ...
Page 89
... massacred 80,000 Roman citizens in a single day . But the two really valuable remedies for the ills of the state which Gracchus had advocated were thrust aside , if not forgotten . Transmarine colonisation was stopped , and the new ...
... massacred 80,000 Roman citizens in a single day . But the two really valuable remedies for the ills of the state which Gracchus had advocated were thrust aside , if not forgotten . Transmarine colonisation was stopped , and the new ...
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