Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, Cato, Pompey, CaesarE. Arnold, 1903 - 348 pages |
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Page 46
... took his place with his colleagues . But presently it was seen that there was also a hostile element present ; the possessores had sent down their clients and retainers , and scuffling and quarrelling began at half - a - dozen points ...
... took his place with his colleagues . But presently it was seen that there was also a hostile element present ; the possessores had sent down their clients and retainers , and scuffling and quarrelling began at half - a - dozen points ...
Page 49
... took Gracchus himself must bear the responsibility : his enemies were greedy and narrow- minded , but he himself was harsh , reckless , and pro- vocative beyond measure . When , in a moment of pique , he struck out the compensation ...
... took Gracchus himself must bear the responsibility : his enemies were greedy and narrow- minded , but he himself was harsh , reckless , and pro- vocative beyond measure . When , in a moment of pique , he struck out the compensation ...
Page 54
... took no very prominent part in public affairs ; yet he did not keep him- self so secluded and obscure as Plutarch makes out . We know , for example , that he made an oration in favour of Carbo's bill concerning re - election to the ...
... took no very prominent part in public affairs ; yet he did not keep him- self so secluded and obscure as Plutarch makes out . We know , for example , that he made an oration in favour of Carbo's bill concerning re - election to the ...
Page 56
... took in hand no less a scheme than the absorption into his own hands of the whole administration , foreign and domestic , of the Roman Empire . His plan was to overrule the Senate by the simple device of keeping perpetual possession of ...
... took in hand no less a scheme than the absorption into his own hands of the whole administration , foreign and domestic , of the Roman Empire . His plan was to overrule the Senate by the simple device of keeping perpetual possession of ...
Page 63
... took place on the largest scale . Crassus , in the Servile War , once decimated a whole cohort for gross cowardice in the field . But the most important of all the legislative enactments of Caius Gracchus were those by which he set to ...
... took place on the largest scale . Crassus , in the Servile War , once decimated a whole cohort for gross cowardice in the field . But the most important of all the legislative enactments of Caius Gracchus were those by which he set to ...
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