Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... urban multitude was moved with the emotional fervour of the harangue , and had no objection to confiscatory measures directed against its old enemies , the governing classes . Clearly Tiberius would not lack supporters , and the angry ...
... urban multitude was moved with the emotional fervour of the harangue , and had no objection to confiscatory measures directed against its old enemies , the governing classes . Clearly Tiberius would not lack supporters , and the angry ...
Page 40
... urban multitude which his adver- saries called " the mob " -misera et sordida plebecula , to use the words of a later politician . " " The time for the election of the tribunes for B.C. 132 was now drawing near , and it was suggested to ...
... urban multitude which his adver- saries called " the mob " -misera et sordida plebecula , to use the words of a later politician . " " The time for the election of the tribunes for B.C. 132 was now drawing near , and it was suggested to ...
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... urban multitude . But the agrarian question had to be fought out , and the contest , if waged with the usual gravity and self - restraint of ancient Roman politics , need not have ended in confiscation without compensation on the one ...
... urban multitude . But the agrarian question had to be fought out , and the contest , if waged with the usual gravity and self - restraint of ancient Roman politics , need not have ended in confiscation without compensation on the one ...
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... urban mob alone , since they were the only citizens who lived near enough to ... multitude , but he also dealt the last death - blow to Italian agriculture ... multitude had begun to expect food from the state at an artificial price ,
... urban mob alone , since they were the only citizens who lived near enough to ... multitude , but he also dealt the last death - blow to Italian agriculture ... multitude had begun to expect food from the state at an artificial price ,
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... urban multitude would never grant them . But on the fertile soil of Africa they might do well enough . Accordingly , Caius set his colleague , the tribune Rubrius , to introduce a bill for the founding of a colony on a very large scale ...
... urban multitude would never grant them . But on the fertile soil of Africa they might do well enough . Accordingly , Caius set his colleague , the tribune Rubrius , to introduce a bill for the founding of a colony on a very large scale ...
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