Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 49
... party leader who combines an emotional temperament , an impatience of opposition , and a complete inability to look at contested questions from his opponent's point of view as well as his own . It is probable that Tiberius was ...
... party leader who combines an emotional temperament , an impatience of opposition , and a complete inability to look at contested questions from his opponent's point of view as well as his own . It is probable that Tiberius was ...
Page 52
... party , and then the struggle for sovereignty must force itself to the front as the main problem of the day . Leaders of a sort were not long wanting , but at first they were mere noisy agitators , who only stirred the surface of things ...
... party , and then the struggle for sovereignty must force itself to the front as the main problem of the day . Leaders of a sort were not long wanting , but at first they were mere noisy agitators , who only stirred the surface of things ...
Page 53
... party was to triumph . Caius Gracchus was nine years younger than his brother Tiberius , and had been too young to aid him in his schemes , though not too young to be appointed one of the famous triumvirs of the Land Commission - that ...
... party was to triumph . Caius Gracchus was nine years younger than his brother Tiberius , and had been too young to aid him in his schemes , though not too young to be appointed one of the famous triumvirs of the Land Commission - that ...
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... party mute and helpless , for lack of a leader and a programme , when he felt that he could so easily supply both these wants . Ambition and revenge were probably at the bottom of his resolve to a greater measure than he himself was ...
... party mute and helpless , for lack of a leader and a programme , when he felt that he could so easily supply both these wants . Ambition and revenge were probably at the bottom of his resolve to a greater measure than he himself was ...
Page 57
... party . His two first laws display it very clearly . One of them was a declaratory bill , which re - enacted the old constitutional V principle that any magistrate who in his year of office had put to death or banished Roman citizens ...
... party . His two first laws display it very clearly . One of them was a declaratory bill , which re - enacted the old constitutional V principle that any magistrate who in his year of office had put to death or banished Roman citizens ...
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