Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... passed back , seven hundred years before the appointed time , into the hands of Oriental rulers , and have shared the fate which overtook Hellenistic Babylon and Bactria , by losing its touch with Western civilisation under a dynasty ...
... passed back , seven hundred years before the appointed time , into the hands of Oriental rulers , and have shared the fate which overtook Hellenistic Babylon and Bactria , by losing its touch with Western civilisation under a dynasty ...
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... passed the Alps , they were annihilated by a general who possessed the art of improvising and handling a great army . It is curious to speculate what might have happened if not Marius , but some imbecile Optimate of the type of his ...
... passed the Alps , they were annihilated by a general who possessed the art of improvising and handling a great army . It is curious to speculate what might have happened if not Marius , but some imbecile Optimate of the type of his ...
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... Passing through Etruria on his way to Spain , as we are told , he saw no one working in the fields but slaves ; tillage seemed to be dying out and the free farmer to have disappeared . The sight shocked him , and he pondered deeply over ...
... Passing through Etruria on his way to Spain , as we are told , he saw no one working in the fields but slaves ; tillage seemed to be dying out and the free farmer to have disappeared . The sight shocked him , and he pondered deeply over ...
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... passing during the last twenty years the phenomenon that is vaguely called " agricultural depression . " It was marked by a per- manent decrease in the selling value of corn , a widespread turning of arable land into pasture , so that ...
... passing during the last twenty years the phenomenon that is vaguely called " agricultural depression . " It was marked by a per- manent decrease in the selling value of corn , a widespread turning of arable land into pasture , so that ...
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... passed a law there could be no appeal to equity or common - sense against it . Tiberius saw Italian agriculture languishing , the country- side occupied more and more every year by the huge estates of the capitalists , while in the city ...
... passed a law there could be no appeal to equity or common - sense against it . Tiberius saw Italian agriculture languishing , the country- side occupied more and more every year by the huge estates of the capitalists , while in the city ...
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