Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... never saw or regarded . There was a serious danger that Rome might become a Levantine city some day , though she was still far from the generation when men could truly say that " in Tiberim defluxit Orontes . " For agricultural ...
... never saw or regarded . There was a serious danger that Rome might become a Levantine city some day , though she was still far from the generation when men could truly say that " in Tiberim defluxit Orontes . " For agricultural ...
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... never vote for the dear loaf . The hopeless side of the agrarian problem , then , in ancient Rome , was that all legislation to support the farming class must be useless without Protection , and Protection could not be got . We do not ...
... never vote for the dear loaf . The hopeless side of the agrarian problem , then , in ancient Rome , was that all legislation to support the farming class must be useless without Protection , and Protection could not be got . We do not ...
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... never been pressed to their logical extreme , though it was always possible that an obstinate man might bring matters to a crisis . At this particular moment , in B.C. 133 , Rome was blessed not with one , but with two obstinate ...
... never been pressed to their logical extreme , though it was always possible that an obstinate man might bring matters to a crisis . At this particular moment , in B.C. 133 , Rome was blessed not with one , but with two obstinate ...
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... never before heard their own case put so strongly . They fully believed that their ruin had come not from economic causes , but from the greed of the rich ; they thought that , if started again with the state's aid and protection , they ...
... never before heard their own case put so strongly . They fully believed that their ruin had come not from economic causes , but from the greed of the rich ; they thought that , if started again with the state's aid and protection , they ...
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... never entered the reformer's head . Of the friction that must have accompanied the confiscations our authorities tell us little . We only know that there were an immense number of complicated lawsuits , and that the bitterness . of ...
... never entered the reformer's head . Of the friction that must have accompanied the confiscations our authorities tell us little . We only know that there were an immense number of complicated lawsuits , and that the bitterness . of ...
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