Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 28
... that it was regarded much as the modern Englishman regards Trial by Jury or Habeas Corpus . To touch it seemed profane . Yet its employment had grown THE AGRARIAN LAW OF GRACCHUS 29 casual and spasmodic . 28 TIBERIUS GRACCHUS.
... that it was regarded much as the modern Englishman regards Trial by Jury or Habeas Corpus . To touch it seemed profane . Yet its employment had grown THE AGRARIAN LAW OF GRACCHUS 29 casual and spasmodic . 28 TIBERIUS GRACCHUS.
Page 41
... seemed to him to be the one really pressing need of the Roman state . When his great bill had passed , he might logically have sung his nunc dimittis and retired into private life , to live down the hatred of the governing classes by ...
... seemed to him to be the one really pressing need of the Roman state . When his great bill had passed , he might logically have sung his nunc dimittis and retired into private life , to live down the hatred of the governing classes by ...
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... seemed secure . But then the objection was made that it was not legal for the same person to hold the tribunate for two years in succession . This was a doubtful point of constitutional law ; so much so , that a few years later the ...
... seemed secure . But then the objection was made that it was not legal for the same person to hold the tribunate for two years in succession . This was a doubtful point of constitutional law ; so much so , that a few years later the ...
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... seemed as if the reformer were about to carry all before him . His faithful tool Mummius had obtained the presidency for the day , and began to call over the roll of the tribes . There was a solid mass of democrats at the front , who ...
... seemed as if the reformer were about to carry all before him . His faithful tool Mummius had obtained the presidency for the day , and began to call over the roll of the tribes . There was a solid mass of democrats at the front , who ...
Page 73
... seemed to them far more attractive than anything that Caius had pro- posed . Equally popular and equally futile was another bill , which was to turn all the farms which had already been distributed by the Land Commission into the ...
... seemed to them far more attractive than anything that Caius had pro- posed . Equally popular and equally futile was another bill , which was to turn all the farms which had already been distributed by the Land Commission into the ...
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