Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... it was expensive , and because they themselves disliked the sea . Hence the Mediterranean swarmed with pirates in a way that had never before been seen . The poorer and wilder maritime races took to piracy en masse , and almost.
... it was expensive , and because they themselves disliked the sea . Hence the Mediterranean swarmed with pirates in a way that had never before been seen . The poorer and wilder maritime races took to piracy en masse , and almost.
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... took to piracy en masse , and almost strangled commerce . The Balearic Islanders swept the western seas ; the unsubdued Dalmatians , the Adriatic ; the Cretans , the ¯gean ; the Pamphylians and Cilicians- the most numerous and reckless ...
... took to piracy en masse , and almost strangled commerce . The Balearic Islanders swept the western seas ; the unsubdued Dalmatians , the Adriatic ; the Cretans , the ¯gean ; the Pamphylians and Cilicians- the most numerous and reckless ...
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... took every opportunity for distinction . He returned with the decoration of a mural crown , and the esteem , as we are told , of the whole army . When he first obtained a magistracy and went to Spain as quaestor to the Consul Mancinus ...
... took every opportunity for distinction . He returned with the decoration of a mural crown , and the esteem , as we are told , of the whole army . When he first obtained a magistracy and went to Spain as quaestor to the Consul Mancinus ...
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... took to politics , there is only one certain remedy . If the citizens will neither emigrate nor turn themselves from agriculture to handi- crafts , and if it is absolutely necessary that the farming class should be kept up , there must ...
... took to politics , there is only one certain remedy . If the citizens will neither emigrate nor turn themselves from agriculture to handi- crafts , and if it is absolutely necessary that the farming class should be kept up , there must ...
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... took the trouble to pass a bill formally affirming its legality . But in B.C. 133 the question could still be debated . There were many precedents for a re - election ; the case of Licinius , the author of the old Agrarian Law of B.C. ...
... took the trouble to pass a bill formally affirming its legality . But in B.C. 133 the question could still be debated . There were many precedents for a re - election ; the case of Licinius , the author of the old Agrarian Law of B.C. ...
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