Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... troops to keep back Pæonian or Illyrian raids on Upper Macedon , or Lusitanian raids on Baetica . They grumbled and rioted every time that a new legion had to be raised . This made the Senate chary of calling out conscripts , or keeping ...
... troops to keep back Pæonian or Illyrian raids on Upper Macedon , or Lusitanian raids on Baetica . They grumbled and rioted every time that a new legion had to be raised . This made the Senate chary of calling out conscripts , or keeping ...
Page 96
... troops , to interpose between the barbarians and the gates of Italy . The Cimbrian war , contrary to all ex- pectation , was protracted for five summers ( B.C. 105–101 ) , and Marius , re - elected year after year to the consulship ...
... troops , to interpose between the barbarians and the gates of Italy . The Cimbrian war , contrary to all ex- pectation , was protracted for five summers ( B.C. 105–101 ) , and Marius , re - elected year after year to the consulship ...
Page 110
... troops , but also the ample supply of money and food by which alone the war could be main- tained the revolted Italians were terribly handicapped by their poverty . Rome had also a considerable number of officers - headed by Marius ...
... troops , but also the ample supply of money and food by which alone the war could be main- tained the revolted Italians were terribly handicapped by their poverty . Rome had also a considerable number of officers - headed by Marius ...
Page 117
... troops at his back . Sulla had a supreme contempt for forms that had grown meaningless , though the majority of the men of his generation were still in bondage to them . Very un - Roman , again , was another of Sulla's character- istics ...
... troops at his back . Sulla had a supreme contempt for forms that had grown meaningless , though the majority of the men of his generation were still in bondage to them . Very un - Roman , again , was another of Sulla's character- istics ...
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... troops , were holding out in Thessaly , but would certainly have been overwhelmed had not Sulla come to their aid . The great proconsul had marched south from Epirus and recovered part of the western regions of Greece , as far as Delphi ...
... troops , were holding out in Thessaly , but would certainly have been overwhelmed had not Sulla come to their aid . The great proconsul had marched south from Epirus and recovered part of the western regions of Greece , as far as Delphi ...
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