Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 63
... able to punish mutiny or cowardice on the spot by the extreme penalty , and to allow an appeal against him is preposterous.1 As a matter of fact , the law was not always observed . There are cases known , long after this time , in which ...
... able to punish mutiny or cowardice on the spot by the extreme penalty , and to allow an appeal against him is preposterous.1 As a matter of fact , the law was not always observed . There are cases known , long after this time , in which ...
Page 79
... able - bodied visitors . Caius appears to have disliked this open appeal to violence . He felt that the Democrats would be putting themselves in the wrong if they began the fray , and seems to have discouraged his followers by his ...
... able - bodied visitors . Caius appears to have disliked this open appeal to violence . He felt that the Democrats would be putting themselves in the wrong if they began the fray , and seems to have discouraged his followers by his ...
Page 80
... able to cast the responsibility for the commencement of civil strife upon their adversaries . It is certain that if Antullius had been left alone , the contest would merely have broken out a few minutes later , for both crowds were bent ...
... able to cast the responsibility for the commencement of civil strife upon their adversaries . It is certain that if Antullius had been left alone , the contest would merely have broken out a few minutes later , for both crowds were bent ...
Page 95
... able to celebrate a triumph , and to pose before his supporters as a successful general . At the moment of his return he had the state at his mercy , for the Senate was cowed , and the people would have been ready to grant him anything ...
... able to celebrate a triumph , and to pose before his supporters as a successful general . At the moment of his return he had the state at his mercy , for the Senate was cowed , and the people would have been ready to grant him anything ...
Page 98
... able and reckless scoundrels , whose disreputability was to be the ruin both of himself and of the Democratic cause . These two choice spirits , L. Appuleius Saturninus and C. Servilius Glaucia , were the Roman counterparts of the ...
... able and reckless scoundrels , whose disreputability was to be the ruin both of himself and of the Democratic cause . These two choice spirits , L. Appuleius Saturninus and C. Servilius Glaucia , were the Roman counterparts of the ...
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