Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, Cato, Pompey, CaesarE. Arnold, 1903 - 348 pages |
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Page 48
... followed by many scores of the younger senators , who were joined outside by a crowd of their clients and attendants . They soon made their way to the Capitol , where they found Gracchus haranguing his partisans ; the multitude was ...
... followed by many scores of the younger senators , who were joined outside by a crowd of their clients and attendants . They soon made their way to the Capitol , where they found Gracchus haranguing his partisans ; the multitude was ...
Page 80
... followed , but the enemies stood gazing upon each other , and no one dared to strike a second blow . At this moment a sudden thunderstorm burst over the Capitol , and , awed by the manifest wrath of Jupiter , the whole armed multitude ...
... followed , but the enemies stood gazing upon each other , and no one dared to strike a second blow . At this moment a sudden thunderstorm burst over the Capitol , and , awed by the manifest wrath of Jupiter , the whole armed multitude ...
Page 82
... followed by his mourning friends , was borne past the doors of the Senate - house . The Fathers rushed out and burst forth into exaggerated demonstrations of horror and sympathy . Then flocking back to their seats they passed the ...
... followed by his mourning friends , was borne past the doors of the Senate - house . The Fathers rushed out and burst forth into exaggerated demonstrations of horror and sympathy . Then flocking back to their seats they passed the ...
Page 84
... followed a massacre ; no less than three thousand persons are said to have been slain , and their bodies cast into the Tiber . Fulvius Flaccus and his elder son Marcus hid themselves in the house of a client , but when their pursuers ...
... followed a massacre ; no less than three thousand persons are said to have been slain , and their bodies cast into the Tiber . Fulvius Flaccus and his elder son Marcus hid themselves in the house of a client , but when their pursuers ...
Page 111
... followed the still more important Lex Plautia Papiria , which granted the franchise to every individual Italian who should lay down his arms and appear before a magis- trate to crave enrolment as a Roman citizen . This law saved the ...
... followed the still more important Lex Plautia Papiria , which granted the franchise to every individual Italian who should lay down his arms and appear before a magis- trate to crave enrolment as a Roman citizen . This law saved the ...
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