Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 74
... position by out - bidding him in the market of popular favour . The waning power of Caius over the multitude was shown most clearly by the fate of his bill for the en- franchisement of the Latins . When it was brought forward , Drusus ...
... position by out - bidding him in the market of popular favour . The waning power of Caius over the multitude was shown most clearly by the fate of his bill for the en- franchisement of the Latins . When it was brought forward , Drusus ...
Page 76
... position was still his own : on the 10th of December B.C. 122 , he would become a private person again , and would not only lose his power of legislation , but become liable to prosecu- tion for any illegal acts which his enemies might ...
... position was still his own : on the 10th of December B.C. 122 , he would become a private person again , and would not only lose his power of legislation , but become liable to prosecu- tion for any illegal acts which his enemies might ...
Page 77
... position of Cleon in the Knights of Aristophanes . His stewardship was about to be taken from him , and he would soon be obliged to give an account of all his doings . At last the fatal day came round , and Caius ceased to be the ...
... position of Cleon in the Knights of Aristophanes . His stewardship was about to be taken from him , and he would soon be obliged to give an account of all his doings . At last the fatal day came round , and Caius ceased to be the ...
Page 84
... position , and the assailants stormed the hill - top and burst in among them . Then 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 ...
... position , and the assailants stormed the hill - top and burst in among them . Then 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 ...
Page 104
... position of the Republic once more produced its inevitable result , and a new reformer arose . Marcus Livius Drusus differed from his predecessors in that he was in no sense a legitimate descendant of the Gracchi . He was what in modern ...
... position of the Republic once more produced its inevitable result , and a new reformer arose . Marcus Livius Drusus differed from his predecessors in that he was in no sense a legitimate descendant of the Gracchi . He was what in modern ...
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