Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 94
... veteran , with a personal grievance . His simple method of achieving notoriety was to declaim to the multitude concerning the very real abuses of the senatorial government , and to promise to set all to rights if he were made consul ...
... veteran , with a personal grievance . His simple method of achieving notoriety was to declaim to the multitude concerning the very real abuses of the senatorial government , and to promise to set all to rights if he were made consul ...
Page 99
... veterans , who were loafing about the city by thousands , living on the great donatives which they had received at the end of the Cimbric war . The platform " of the revived Democratic party consisted of a reproduction , with some ...
... veterans , who were loafing about the city by thousands , living on the great donatives which they had received at the end of the Cimbric war . The platform " of the revived Democratic party consisted of a reproduction , with some ...
Page 100
... veterans of the Jugurthine war . Now he produced a grandiose plan for transmarine colonisation on the largest scale . It included a law for the planting of colonies in Achaia , Macedonia , and Sicily , and another for the distribution ...
... veterans of the Jugurthine war . Now he produced a grandiose plan for transmarine colonisation on the largest scale . It included a law for the planting of colonies in Achaia , Macedonia , and Sicily , and another for the distribution ...
Page 102
... veterans in his front rank , charged back , drove off Caepio and his gang , and completed the formalities of passing the bill among desperate noise , confusion , and tumult . It was farcical to call such a mere riot a legal meeting of ...
... veterans in his front rank , charged back , drove off Caepio and his gang , and completed the formalities of passing the bill among desperate noise , confusion , and tumult . It was farcical to call such a mere riot a legal meeting of ...
Page 103
... veterans of Marius , they proved no more able to defend themselves than Caius Gracchus and Fulvius had been in B.C. 121. The Optimates easily shut them in and held them beleaguered , while the Senate proclaimed martial law . Marius ...
... veterans of Marius , they proved no more able to defend themselves than Caius Gracchus and Fulvius had been in B.C. 121. The Optimates easily shut them in and held them beleaguered , while the Senate proclaimed martial law . Marius ...
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