Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 44
... called to account . This theory was still worth defending if the Optimates wished for a fight . When the point was brought up , the partisans of Tiberius raised loud cries of dissent , and such a tumult arose that the presiding tribune ...
... called to account . This theory was still worth defending if the Optimates wished for a fight . When the point was brought up , the partisans of Tiberius raised loud cries of dissent , and such a tumult arose that the presiding tribune ...
Page 57
... called him a tyrant : he was πρоσтÁTNS TOÛ Sýμov , as the Greeks phrased it , but that is a very different thing from holding a tyranny . What Caius Gracchus craved was much the same position ; but he had not the calm wisdom of Pericles ...
... called him a tyrant : he was πρоσтÁTNS TOÛ Sýμov , as the Greeks phrased it , but that is a very different thing from holding a tyranny . What Caius Gracchus craved was much the same position ; but he had not the calm wisdom of Pericles ...
Page 62
... called for , was one for relieving the rank and file of the army from the burden of providing themselves with clothing . In the old days , when the citizen - soldier spent a few months in the field , at no great distance from his home ...
... called for , was one for relieving the rank and file of the army from the burden of providing themselves with clothing . In the old days , when the citizen - soldier spent a few months in the field , at no great distance from his home ...
Page 64
... called up to sit in the senate . It was heterogeneous , containing two very different classes of members . The more reputable half of it comprised the larger landowners of non - senatorial rank throughout Roman Italy . The other half ...
... called up to sit in the senate . It was heterogeneous , containing two very different classes of members . The more reputable half of it comprised the larger landowners of non - senatorial rank throughout Roman Italy . The other half ...
Page 69
... called Junonia , on the site of Carthage . But he was also launching out on to the development of another item of the Democratic programme : he wished to carry out that liberal extension of the citizenship to the Italian allies which ...
... called Junonia , on the site of Carthage . But he was also launching out on to the development of another item of the Democratic programme : he wished to carry out that liberal extension of the citizenship to the Italian allies which ...
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