Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... Italian agriculture and to thin out the farmers who formed the backbone of the old Roman race . A single man was fated to bring forward both these questions , to formulate them in the most contentious shapes possible , to confuse their ...
... Italian agriculture and to thin out the farmers who formed the backbone of the old Roman race . A single man was fated to bring forward both these questions , to formulate them in the most contentious shapes possible , to confuse their ...
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... him , and he pondered deeply over it during the leisure hours of his Spanish campaign . He learnt by inquiry that the same thing was to be seen in many other parts of Italy . Doubtless the discontented conscripts , whom.
... him , and he pondered deeply over it during the leisure hours of his Spanish campaign . He learnt by inquiry that the same thing was to be seen in many other parts of Italy . Doubtless the discontented conscripts , whom.
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... Italy . Doubtless the discontented conscripts , whom he had to command , told him all the woes of the poor ... Italian agriculture to various causes which began to operate as far back as the Second Punic War - to the ravages of ...
... Italy . Doubtless the discontented conscripts , whom he had to command , told him all the woes of the poor ... Italian agriculture to various causes which began to operate as far back as the Second Punic War - to the ravages of ...
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... Italy of great landed estates - the latifundia , worked by chain- gangs of Eastern slaves , of which we hear so many complaints . We are assured that the freeholders decayed because of the perverse wickedness of the great capi- talists ...
... Italy of great landed estates - the latifundia , worked by chain- gangs of Eastern slaves , of which we hear so many complaints . We are assured that the freeholders decayed because of the perverse wickedness of the great capi- talists ...
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... Italy which figure in so many descriptions . That Italian agriculture was flagging in the middle years of the second century , even in quarters where the capitalist did not intervene , is quite clear . Cato in his younger days had ...
... Italy which figure in so many descriptions . That Italian agriculture was flagging in the middle years of the second century , even in quarters where the capitalist did not intervene , is quite clear . Cato in his younger days had ...
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