Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... 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 brother - in - law , the younger Scipio Africanus . The general's kinsman was offered and ...
... 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 brother - in - law , the younger Scipio Africanus . The general's kinsman was offered and ...
Page 41
... military service ; ( 2 ) the granting of a right of appeal from all law - courts to the sovereign people assembled in the Comitia ; ( 3 ) the abolition of the monopoly , which the senators had hitherto enjoyed , of supplying all the ...
... military service ; ( 2 ) the granting of a right of appeal from all law - courts to the sovereign people assembled in the Comitia ; ( 3 ) the abolition of the monopoly , which the senators had hitherto enjoyed , of supplying all the ...
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... military service , and ( perhaps ) the limits of the fran- chise . There was no attempt to settle the great problems of sovereignty and imperial administration , which were the really pressing questions of the day . Apparently he was 51 ...
... military service , and ( perhaps ) the limits of the fran- chise . There was no attempt to settle the great problems of sovereignty and imperial administration , which were the really pressing questions of the day . Apparently he was 51 ...
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... military glory in his way by assigning him the Gallic province ; he could not resist the opportunity , and disappeared from home politics for two years . The only practical result of his agitation . was the rebellion of one isolated ...
... military glory in his way by assigning him the Gallic province ; he could not resist the opportunity , and disappeared from home politics for two years . The only practical result of his agitation . was the rebellion of one isolated ...
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... military executions took place on the largest scale . Crassus , in the Servile War , once decimated a whole cohort for gross cowardice in the field . But the most important of all the legislative enactments of Caius Gracchus were those ...
... military executions took place on the largest scale . Crassus , in the Servile War , once decimated a whole cohort for gross cowardice in the field . But the most important of all the legislative enactments of Caius Gracchus were those ...
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