Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... tried to shirk as long as possible the responsibilities of empire . Her population was no longer mainly a race of farmers dwelling on their own narrow acres ; it was rapidly becoming divorced from the soil , and degenerating into ...
... tried to shirk as long as possible the responsibilities of empire . Her population was no longer mainly a race of farmers dwelling on their own narrow acres ; it was rapidly becoming divorced from the soil , and degenerating into ...
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... tried very seriously her power to govern . Sicily and Sardinia were close at hand , in ready and constant communication with the city . They were actually visible from the headlands of Italy — mere broken- off fragments of the peninsula ...
... tried very seriously her power to govern . Sicily and Sardinia were close at hand , in ready and constant communication with the city . They were actually visible from the headlands of Italy — mere broken- off fragments of the peninsula ...
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... tried the accused was so much swayed by personal and party bias that from the first there were scandals in its working . When a con- demnation did occur , it was generally whispered that the convicted magistrate was suffering for some ...
... tried the accused was so much swayed by personal and party bias that from the first there were scandals in its working . When a con- demnation did occur , it was generally whispered that the convicted magistrate was suffering for some ...
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... tried to govern an empire without an imperial outfit of army , navy , and civil service . The Roman world , in short , was badly governed and badly defended : the provinces were steadily decreasing in wealth and resources from the ...
... tried to govern an empire without an imperial outfit of army , navy , and civil service . The Roman world , in short , was badly governed and badly defended : the provinces were steadily decreasing in wealth and resources from the ...
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... tried , each in his more or less futile fashion , to set it right . With some of these states- men it is our task to deal . Their successive biographies show well enough the course of the whole history of the later Republic ; there is ...
... tried , each in his more or less futile fashion , to set it right . With some of these states- men it is our task to deal . Their successive biographies show well enough the course of the whole history of the later Republic ; there is ...
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