Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 40
... position absurd , it is that the body which he idealised into " the Roman people was really the shifting urban multitude which his adver- saries called " the mob " -misera et sordida plebecula , to use the words of a later politician ...
... position absurd , it is that the body which he idealised into " the Roman people was really the shifting urban multitude which his adver- saries called " the mob " -misera et sordida plebecula , to use the words of a later politician ...
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... position and his power of dealing as a magistrate with the public assembly . By resolving to offer himself as a candidate for a second term of office Tiberius changed his whole political position . He had started as an enthusiast who ...
... position and his power of dealing as a magistrate with the public assembly . By resolving to offer himself as a candidate for a second term of office Tiberius changed his whole political position . He had started as an enthusiast who ...
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... position of future tribunes , he does not seem for one moment to have reflected . But as a substitute for the old constitution , which he was so ruthlessly breaking up , Tiberius had nothing to put forward . When we exa- mine his ...
... position of future tribunes , he does not seem for one moment to have reflected . But as a substitute for the old constitution , which he was so ruthlessly breaking up , Tiberius had nothing to put forward . When we exa- mine his ...
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... position that Pericles had once held at Athens . The Athenian had been Strategos year after year , and had guided for half a lifetime the votes of the Ecclesia . Yet no one save comic poets called him a tyrant : he was πρоσтÁTNS TOÛ ...
... position that Pericles had once held at Athens . The Athenian had been Strategos year after year , and had guided for half a lifetime the votes of the Ecclesia . Yet no one save comic poets called him a tyrant : he was πρоσтÁTNS TOÛ ...
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... position , that he had μοναρχίκη τις ἴσχυς . But he forgets to point out that he was destitute of one most important element of power - he had no regular armed force at his back , only the fickle bands of the urban multitude . The Roman ...
... position , that he had μοναρχίκη τις ἴσχυς . But he forgets to point out that he was destitute of one most important element of power - he had no regular armed force at his back , only the fickle bands of the urban multitude . The Roman ...
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