Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... raised . This made the Senate chary of calling out conscripts , or keeping them long on foreign service . But finally , the crisis always grew so dangerous that the hated levy had at last to be raised . Nothing can better illustrate the ...
... raised . This made the Senate chary of calling out conscripts , or keeping them long on foreign service . But finally , the crisis always grew so dangerous that the hated levy had at last to be raised . Nothing can better illustrate the ...
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... raised were unending ; some had borrowed money on the security of such lands - were the creditors to lose the sum advanced ? Others had charged upon them the dowries of their wives , or the portions of their daughters . Many had bought ...
... raised were unending ; some had borrowed money on the security of such lands - were the creditors to lose the sum advanced ? Others had charged upon them the dowries of their wives , or the portions of their daughters . Many had bought ...
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... raised wild anger in the breast of Tiberius . He was still convinced that only bad motives could lead men to oppose a law in which , as he considered , lay the sole hope of salvation for the Roman state . Accordingly he resolved that ...
... raised wild anger in the breast of Tiberius . He was still convinced that only bad motives could lead men to oppose a law in which , as he considered , lay the sole hope of salvation for the Roman state . Accordingly he resolved that ...
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... raising of the funds would certainly have involved him in a bitter conflict with the Senate , who always made finance their special province . But fortune intervened . Just at this moment there died Attalus III . , the last king of ...
... raising of the funds would certainly have involved him in a bitter conflict with the Senate , who always made finance their special province . But fortune intervened . Just at this moment there died Attalus III . , the last king of ...
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... raise a con- stitutional question on a disputed point of election law . When , among immense excitement , the poll began , the first two tribes gave their suffrages for Gracchus . It was so customary for the remaining tribes to follow ...
... raise a con- stitutional question on a disputed point of election law . When , among immense excitement , the poll began , the first two tribes gave their suffrages for Gracchus . It was so customary for the remaining tribes to follow ...
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