Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... him , and he pondered deeply over it during the leisure hours of his Spanish campaign . He learnt by inquiry that the same thing was to be seen in many other parts of Italy . Doubtless the discontented conscripts , whom.
... him , and he pondered deeply over it during the leisure hours of his Spanish campaign . He learnt by inquiry that the same thing was to be seen in many other parts of Italy . Doubtless the discontented conscripts , whom.
Page 16
... Italy , or rather Roman Italy , was suffering in B.C. 134 were much the same as those through which rural England has been passing during the last twenty years the phenomenon that is vaguely called " agricultural depression . " It was ...
... Italy , or rather Roman Italy , was suffering in B.C. 134 were much the same as those through which rural England has been passing during the last twenty years the phenomenon that is vaguely called " agricultural depression . " It was ...
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... Italy of great landed estates - the latifundia , worked by chain- gangs of Eastern slaves , of which we hear so many complaints . We are assured that the freeholders decayed because of the perverse wickedness of the great capi- talists ...
... Italy of great landed estates - the latifundia , worked by chain- gangs of Eastern slaves , of which we hear so many complaints . We are assured that the freeholders decayed because of the perverse wickedness of the great capi- talists ...
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... Italy which figure in so many descriptions . That Italian agriculture was flagging in the middle years of the second century , even in quarters where the capitalist did not intervene , is quite clear . Cato in his younger days had ...
... Italy which figure in so many descriptions . That Italian agriculture was flagging in the middle years of the second century , even in quarters where the capitalist did not intervene , is quite clear . Cato in his younger days had ...
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... Italy . But it was not merely with the speculative importer from Spain , Africa , or Egypt , that the farmers of the Latin and Etruscan Campagna had now to compete . Simple free trade was not their only bane . They had also to face the ...
... Italy . But it was not merely with the speculative importer from Spain , Africa , or Egypt , that the farmers of the Latin and Etruscan Campagna had now to compete . Simple free trade was not their only bane . They had also to face the ...
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