Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 60
... probably re - enacted his brother's law for purely political reasons , not because he thought that it would have any good effect , but because it looked well in the Democratic programme . His real scheme for relieving the economic ...
... probably re - enacted his brother's law for purely political reasons , not because he thought that it would have any good effect , but because it looked well in the Democratic programme . His real scheme for relieving the economic ...
Page 74
... probably their status in other ways was to be brought nearer to that of their comrades who possessed the full citizenship . In proposing each of his laws , Drusus took great care to point out to the people that he was acting with the ...
... probably their status in other ways was to be brought nearer to that of their comrades who possessed the full citizenship . In proposing each of his laws , Drusus took great care to point out to the people that he was acting with the ...
Page 75
... probably supposed that nothing would commend him more surely to the people than the sight of the new Carthaginian colony inaugurated with all possible pomp and splendour , and flourishing from the first , as it was bound to do , if only ...
... probably supposed that nothing would commend him more surely to the people than the sight of the new Carthaginian colony inaugurated with all possible pomp and splendour , and flourishing from the first , as it was bound to do , if only ...
Page 83
... probably the perception of the fact that the number of their partisans on the Aventine was much smaller than they had expected , which led the Democratic leaders to negotiate before opening hostilities . When they received the message ...
... probably the perception of the fact that the number of their partisans on the Aventine was much smaller than they had expected , which led the Democratic leaders to negotiate before opening hostilities . When they received the message ...
Page 87
... Probably the true way of reconciling the contradictions of the life of Caius is to realise that though he pos- sessed many of the instincts of the tyrant and the dema- gogue , there was also latent in him much of the ancient Roman civic ...
... Probably the true way of reconciling the contradictions of the life of Caius is to realise that though he pos- sessed many of the instincts of the tyrant and the dema- gogue , there was also latent in him much of the ancient Roman civic ...
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