Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, Cato, Pompey, CaesarE. Arnold, 1903 - 348 pages |
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Page 35
... gave their votes for the proposal ; before the eighteenth had come up , and an actual majority had been registered ( the number of tribes was thirty - five at this period ) , Tiberius gave Octavius a last chance , telling him that if.
... gave their votes for the proposal ; before the eighteenth had come up , and an actual majority had been registered ( the number of tribes was thirty - five at this period ) , Tiberius gave Octavius a last chance , telling him that if.
Page 37
... proposed to find the very large sums of money necessary for this purpose we are not told . The raising of the funds would certainly have involved him in a bitter conflict with the Senate , who always made finance their special province ...
... proposed to find the very large sums of money necessary for this purpose we are not told . The raising of the funds would certainly have involved him in a bitter conflict with the Senate , who always made finance their special province ...
Page 41
... proposal was to go is unfortunately unknown ; indeed , we have only a very meagre outline of the whole set of schemes . It would probably be doing Tiberius an injustice to suspect that the whole of this programme was drawn up in order ...
... proposal was to go is unfortunately unknown ; indeed , we have only a very meagre outline of the whole set of schemes . It would probably be doing Tiberius an injustice to suspect that the whole of this programme was drawn up in order ...
Page 51
... proposals to change points of detail , such as the composition of juries , the conditions of military service , and ( perhaps ) the limits of the fran- chise . There was no attempt to settle the great problems of sovereignty and ...
... proposals to change points of detail , such as the composition of juries , the conditions of military service , and ( perhaps ) the limits of the fran- chise . There was no attempt to settle the great problems of sovereignty and ...
Page 58
... proposals of the first tribunate of Caius Gracchus are of very various kinds , covering all sorts of different spheres of imperial and domestic admini- stration . They plainly show that the vehement young tribune thought nothing too ...
... proposals of the first tribunate of Caius Gracchus are of very various kinds , covering all sorts of different spheres of imperial and domestic admini- stration . They plainly show that the vehement young tribune thought nothing too ...
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