Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... Rome had fallen . But ere Julius Cæsar appeared there were not one but many Romans who saw well enough that the Roman world was out of joint , and tried , each in his more or less futile fashion , to set it right . With some of these ...
... Rome had fallen . But ere Julius Cæsar appeared there were not one but many Romans who saw well enough that the Roman world was out of joint , and tried , each in his more or less futile fashion , to set it right . With some of these ...
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... Rome ) , who was always reminding him that he was the grandson of Scipio the elder , and asking , " How long am I to be called the daughter of Africanus and not the mother of the Gracchi ? " All the domestic circle marked him off from ...
... Rome ) , who was always reminding him that he was the grandson of Scipio the elder , and asking , " How long am I to be called the daughter of Africanus and not the mother of the Gracchi ? " All the domestic circle marked him off from ...
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... Rome , he had enough brains to see that the times were out of joint , enough heart to feel for the misfortunes of his countrymen , enough conscience to refuse to leave things alone and take the easy path to success that lay before him ...
... Rome , he had enough brains to see that the times were out of joint , enough heart to feel for the misfortunes of his countrymen , enough conscience to refuse to leave things alone and take the easy path to success that lay before him ...
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... Rome's policy unconsciously helped them to survive ; she jealously kept the Italians isolated , and excluded them from the profits of the Empire , with the result that they remained torpid but well preserved in their remote valleys ...
... Rome's policy unconsciously helped them to survive ; she jealously kept the Italians isolated , and excluded them from the profits of the Empire , with the result that they remained torpid but well preserved in their remote valleys ...
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... Rome they mingled with and were demoralised by a far worse element , the great mass of manumitted slaves . The freedmen of the city were precisely the least promising section of the governing people . The slaves who made themselves ...
... Rome they mingled with and were demoralised by a far worse element , the great mass of manumitted slaves . The freedmen of the city were precisely the least promising section of the governing people . The slaves who made themselves ...
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