Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 41
... carry it through : the settlement of the Agrarian Question had seemed to him to be the one really pressing need of the Roman state . When his great bill had passed , he might logically have sung his nunc dimittis and retired into ...
... carry it through : the settlement of the Agrarian Question had seemed to him to be the one really pressing need of the Roman state . When his great bill had passed , he might logically have sung his nunc dimittis and retired into ...
Page 42
... carrying out his obvious duty . The news that Tiberius was canvassing for a second tenure of office brought the more or less suppressed wrath of his enemies to boiling - point . They had supposed that they would be rid of him as ...
... carrying out his obvious duty . The news that Tiberius was canvassing for a second tenure of office brought the more or less suppressed wrath of his enemies to boiling - point . They had supposed that they would be rid of him as ...
Page 43
... carried out . On the other hand , there was an old law , dating from the generation after Licinius ( B.C. 342 ) , which discouraged re - election . It had not been invariably observed , but it was still on the Statute Book . More- over ...
... carried out . On the other hand , there was an old law , dating from the generation after Licinius ( B.C. 342 ) , which discouraged re - election . It had not been invariably observed , but it was still on the Statute Book . More- over ...
Page 44
... carry out his day's work , or else there must be a fresh casting of lots for the selection of a fresh president . While the magistrates wrangled , the people grew more and more turbulent , and when the meeting had degenerated into a ...
... carry out his day's work , or else there must be a fresh casting of lots for the selection of a fresh president . While the magistrates wrangled , the people grew more and more turbulent , and when the meeting had degenerated into a ...
Page 47
... carried to the assembly seems to have been somewhat highly coloured , for though the possessores had been denouncing Tiberius in the bitterest terms , they had not succeeded in moving the consul Scævola to take any action against him ...
... carried to the assembly seems to have been somewhat highly coloured , for though the possessores had been denouncing Tiberius in the bitterest terms , they had not succeeded in moving the consul Scævola to take any action against him ...
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