Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 139
... Sertorius ; the rest were noisy rather than energetic , and bloodthirsty rather than resolute . Indeed , the only men who fought with zeal against Sulla were those who had compromised them- selves in the massacre , and knew that they ...
... Sertorius ; the rest were noisy rather than energetic , and bloodthirsty rather than resolute . Indeed , the only men who fought with zeal against Sulla were those who had compromised them- selves in the massacre , and knew that they ...
Page 163
... Sertorius , had raised a really dangerous insurrection - a peril to the state , not so much because it was a lingering remnant of the civil war between Roman and Roman , as because Sertorius was gradually.
... Sertorius , had raised a really dangerous insurrection - a peril to the state , not so much because it was a lingering remnant of the civil war between Roman and Roman , as because Sertorius was gradually.
Page 164
... Sertorius was gradually de - Romanising himself , and becoming a Spanish national leader rather than a representative of the old party of the populares . Of him we shall have more to say when we deal with the life of Pompey . As long as ...
... Sertorius was gradually de - Romanising himself , and becoming a Spanish national leader rather than a representative of the old party of the populares . Of him we shall have more to say when we deal with the life of Pompey . As long as ...
Page 165
... Sertorius in Spain . There the insurgents were making marked progress ; they carried all before them , and were not even checked when Pompey in the next year led a considerable army of reinforcements from Italy against them . While the ...
... Sertorius in Spain . There the insurgents were making marked progress ; they carried all before them , and were not even checked when Pompey in the next year led a considerable army of reinforcements from Italy against them . While the ...
Page 166
... Sertorius , Mithradates , and Spartacus , deserved to fall . It only needed some one more able than the vain Lepidus to lead the attack on the Sullan state - system , and it was bound to crumble down . But the blow was to be given not ...
... Sertorius , Mithradates , and Spartacus , deserved to fall . It only needed some one more able than the vain Lepidus to lead the attack on the Sullan state - system , and it was bound to crumble down . But the blow was to be given not ...
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