Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... already begun to acquire important transmarine domains . She was still a self - supporting agricultural community , feeding herself on home - grown corn . Moreover , she might still be described as a narrow - minded purely Italian town ...
... already begun to acquire important transmarine domains . She was still a self - supporting agricultural community , feeding herself on home - grown corn . Moreover , she might still be described as a narrow - minded purely Italian town ...
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... already clamouring for distributions of corn when any excuse , adequate or inadequate , could be found . It is scarcely necessary to point out the effect on the agricultural classes of Central Italy of the appearance of such huge masses ...
... already clamouring for distributions of corn when any excuse , adequate or inadequate , could be found . It is scarcely necessary to point out the effect on the agricultural classes of Central Italy of the appearance of such huge masses ...
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... already clamouring to have it larger and yet cheaper . They would have laughed to scorn any proposal to impose a heavy tax on their corn for the benefit of the rural voters . High patriotic appeals would have had little effect on them ...
... already clamouring to have it larger and yet cheaper . They would have laughed to scorn any proposal to impose a heavy tax on their corn for the benefit of the rural voters . High patriotic appeals would have had little effect on them ...
Page 29
... already noticed ; but we must add that the confiscated land was to be cut up into farms of thirty jugera each , inalienable by the allottees , and charged with a small rent payable to the state . The former provision was intended to ...
... already noticed ; but we must add that the confiscated land was to be cut up into farms of thirty jugera each , inalienable by the allottees , and charged with a small rent payable to the state . The former provision was intended to ...
Page 36
... already given its details . It only remains to add that when the three commissioners , agris dandis assignandis , had to be appointed , Tiberius showed a great want of political wisdom . He named himself , his younger brother , Caius -a ...
... already given its details . It only remains to add that when the three commissioners , agris dandis assignandis , had to be appointed , Tiberius showed a great want of political wisdom . He named himself , his younger brother , Caius -a ...
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| Pealkiri | Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sar |
| Autor | Charles Oman |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, 1902 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 juuni 2008 |
| Length | 348 pages |
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