Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... PROCONSULS 7 sities of the times , or even for seeing that the proconsul did not violate its spirit by arbitrary tampering with the edictum tralaticium , the supplementary code which he could issue and vary at his own pleasure . All ...
... PROCONSULS 7 sities of the times , or even for seeing that the proconsul did not violate its spirit by arbitrary tampering with the edictum tralaticium , the supplementary code which he could issue and vary at his own pleasure . All ...
Page 94
... proconsul , and was thinking quite as much of revenging personal slights to himself as of giving the Democratic party an opportunity of seizing the reins of power . The vulgar self - assertion and coarse invective of Marius did not ...
... proconsul , and was thinking quite as much of revenging personal slights to himself as of giving the Democratic party an opportunity of seizing the reins of power . The vulgar self - assertion and coarse invective of Marius did not ...
Page 129
... proconsul had marched south from Epirus and recovered part of the western regions of Greece , as far as Delphi and the borders of Boeotia , when he re- ceived the appalling tidings of the outbreak of the new Democratic rising in Italy ...
... proconsul had marched south from Epirus and recovered part of the western regions of Greece , as far as Delphi and the borders of Boeotia , when he re- ceived the appalling tidings of the outbreak of the new Democratic rising in Italy ...
Page 139
... proconsul answered that he must bring his army at his back to give him security , and that the guilty must be punished , it was evident that there was no way of avoid- ing the struggle . Cinna meanwhile had been seized with the idea ...
... proconsul answered that he must bring his army at his back to give him security , and that the guilty must be punished , it was evident that there was no way of avoid- ing the struggle . Cinna meanwhile had been seized with the idea ...
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... proconsul Q. Metellus Pius , but by far the most able were two young men , Gn . Pompeius and Marcus Crassus , each of whom had to avenge a father slain in the civil war , the one in a mutiny , the other in the great massacre of B.C. 87 ...
... proconsul Q. Metellus Pius , but by far the most able were two young men , Gn . Pompeius and Marcus Crassus , each of whom had to avenge a father slain in the civil war , the one in a mutiny , the other in the great massacre of B.C. 87 ...
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