Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 12
... constitution to the new needs of empire ? — Was the Senate or the Public Assembly to rule the world , and by what machinery ? And , secondly , how was the state to deal with the unfortunate fact that the new commercial conditions of the ...
... constitution to the new needs of empire ? — Was the Senate or the Public Assembly to rule the world , and by what machinery ? And , secondly , how was the state to deal with the unfortunate fact that the new commercial conditions of the ...
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... constitutional check that hinders his plans must be swept away without further inquiry , that every political opponent is a bad man who must be crushed , has been known in many lands and many ages , from ancient Greece down to the ...
... constitutional check that hinders his plans must be swept away without further inquiry , that every political opponent is a bad man who must be crushed , has been known in many lands and many ages , from ancient Greece down to the ...
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... constitutional reforms in his head , but merely economic ones . Passing through Etruria on his way to Spain , as we are told , he saw no one working in the fields but slaves ; tillage seemed to be dying out and the free farmer to have ...
... constitutional reforms in his head , but merely economic ones . Passing through Etruria on his way to Spain , as we are told , he saw no one working in the fields but slaves ; tillage seemed to be dying out and the free farmer to have ...
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... constitution of Rome rested on a public assembly of citizens massed in the Campus Martius . On any ordi- nary day of meeting the assembly was entirely composed of the urban populace ; it would require some very great matter to induce ...
... constitution of Rome rested on a public assembly of citizens massed in the Campus Martius . On any ordi- nary day of meeting the assembly was entirely composed of the urban populace ; it would require some very great matter to induce ...
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... constitutional change . No doubt all the tags of Aristotle's school on χρεῶν ἀποκοπὴ and γῆς ἀναδασμὸς were familiar to him . It may not be out of place to remember that his tutor , Blossius , ultimately died an anarchist , fighting at ...
... constitutional change . No doubt all the tags of Aristotle's school on χρεῶν ἀποκοπὴ and γῆς ἀναδασμὸς were familiar to him . It may not be out of place to remember that his tutor , Blossius , ultimately died an anarchist , fighting at ...
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