Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... told , of the whole army . When he first obtained a magistracy and went to Spain as quaestor to the Consul Mancinus , chance gave him an utterly unexpected opportunity of saving a Roman army from destruction ( B.C. 137 ) . The ...
... told , of the whole army . When he first obtained a magistracy and went to Spain as quaestor to the Consul Mancinus , chance gave him an utterly unexpected opportunity of saving a Roman army from destruction ( B.C. 137 ) . The ...
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... 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 it during the leisure hours of his Spanish campaign ...
... 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 it during the leisure hours of his Spanish campaign ...
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... told him all the woes of the poor freeholder in the days when farming had ceased to pay . At any rate , when he settled down once more in Rome , he imagined that he had probed to the bottom the existing distress and its causes , and ...
... told him all the woes of the poor freeholder in the days when farming had ceased to pay . At any rate , when he settled down once more in Rome , he imagined that he had probed to the bottom the existing distress and its causes , and ...
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... told , they did in order that they might supplant the freeholder by their gangs of Asiatic slaves . Any theory based on the hypothesis that rich men are gratuitously and perversely wicked has found eager acceptance in certain quarters ...
... told , they did in order that they might supplant the freeholder by their gangs of Asiatic slaves . Any theory based on the hypothesis that rich men are gratuitously and perversely wicked has found eager acceptance in certain quarters ...
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... him desist . Tiberius from the first showed signs of temper ; he turned on his colleague , we are told , and used harsh and insulting words to him . Then he postponed " the introduction of the bill to the next legal day.
... him desist . Tiberius from the first showed signs of temper ; he turned on his colleague , we are told , and used harsh and insulting words to him . Then he postponed " the introduction of the bill to the next legal day.
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