Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... seemed that the wish as well as the power to check misgovernment was disappearing . The natural result was that the type of proconsul steadily deteriorated , as the probability of impunity for abuse of authority grew greater ...
... seemed that the wish as well as the power to check misgovernment was disappearing . The natural result was that the type of proconsul steadily deteriorated , as the probability of impunity for abuse of authority grew greater ...
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... seemed doomed to retrogression and collapse . It is possible that the Republic might have been demolished , if there had arisen against it any really formidable and well - equipped enemy . But the outer world was singularly destitute of ...
... seemed doomed to retrogression and collapse . It is possible that the Republic might have been demolished , if there had arisen against it any really formidable and well - equipped enemy . But the outer world was singularly destitute of ...
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... seemed to be dying out and the free farmer to have disappeared . The sight shocked him , and he pondered deeply over it during the leisure hours of his Spanish campaign . He learnt by inquiry that the same thing was to be seen in many ...
... seemed to be dying out and the free farmer to have disappeared . The sight shocked him , and he pondered deeply over it during the leisure hours of his Spanish campaign . He learnt by inquiry that the same thing was to be seen in many ...
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... seemed almost to have ceased in certain districts , and a slow but sure shrinkage in the numbers of the free farming popula- tion who " lived by the land . " It is usual for historians to trace the decline of Italian agriculture to ...
... seemed almost to have ceased in certain districts , and a slow but sure shrinkage in the numbers of the free farming popula- tion who " lived by the land . " It is usual for historians to trace the decline of Italian agriculture to ...
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... seemed abnormal and unpatriotic to a race who still cherished the notion formulated in the statement omnis peregrinatio sordida est et inhonesta . Unlike the Greek , the Roman was not content to go abroad for ever ; the first great ...
... seemed abnormal and unpatriotic to a race who still cherished the notion formulated in the statement omnis peregrinatio sordida est et inhonesta . Unlike the Greek , the Roman was not content to go abroad for ever ; the first great ...
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