Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, Cato, Pompey, CaesarE. Arnold, 1903 - 348 pages |
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Page 130
... looked better . The generals of Mithradates were beaten at Mount Tilphossium in Boeotia and pressed back to- wards Athens . Then the greater part of the Greek states sent to ask for terms : they had not liked their experiences of the ...
... looked better . The generals of Mithradates were beaten at Mount Tilphossium in Boeotia and pressed back to- wards Athens . Then the greater part of the Greek states sent to ask for terms : they had not liked their experiences of the ...
Page 157
... looked forward to twenty years of life , he might have dragooned the Roman people into an acceptance of it ; but he was already elderly and ailing . Innovators should start young and live long , like the Emperor Augustus . What would ...
... looked forward to twenty years of life , he might have dragooned the Roman people into an acceptance of it ; but he was already elderly and ailing . Innovators should start young and live long , like the Emperor Augustus . What would ...
Page 160
... looked round at her , whereupon she said , ' Do not wonder , sir , at what I have done ; I had only a mind to get a shred of your good luck . ' Sulla was far from being displeased : on the contrary , it appeared that he was agreeably ...
... looked round at her , whereupon she said , ' Do not wonder , sir , at what I have done ; I had only a mind to get a shred of your good luck . ' Sulla was far from being displeased : on the contrary , it appeared that he was agreeably ...
Page 177
... looked well when investigated in a court of law , such as the executions of Carbo and M. Brutus . They had , no doubt , been declared outlaws by the Senate , but the officer who had put them to death would have felt some qualms in the ...
... looked well when investigated in a court of law , such as the executions of Carbo and M. Brutus . They had , no doubt , been declared outlaws by the Senate , but the officer who had put them to death would have felt some qualms in the ...
Page 180
... looked upon him much as they looked upon Clodius ten years later , and never suspected that the lieutenant of Crassus was more than a splendid mob - orator and a skilled manager of " corner boys . " The chief landmarks of this period of ...
... looked upon him much as they looked upon Clodius ten years later , and never suspected that the lieutenant of Crassus was more than a splendid mob - orator and a skilled manager of " corner boys . " The chief landmarks of this period of ...
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