Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 65
... deal more of a money - lender , speculator , and financial agent than of a mere merchant . His in- terests were as much opposed to those of the provincials as they were to those of the Senate . His main wish was to exploit the empire ...
... deal more of a money - lender , speculator , and financial agent than of a mere merchant . His in- terests were as much opposed to those of the provincials as they were to those of the Senate . His main wish was to exploit the empire ...
Page 71
... deal with the franchise question was to bestow the full citizenship on the Latins , and the rights hitherto held by the Latins on the remainder of the Italian allies . The " Latins " now represented not the old thirty cities of the ...
... deal with the franchise question was to bestow the full citizenship on the Latins , and the rights hitherto held by the Latins on the remainder of the Italian allies . The " Latins " now represented not the old thirty cities of the ...
Page 102
... deal of ruffianism on the part of his supporters , but he drew the line at the systematic murder of respect- able opponents , and would have preferred to see the opposite party in the assembly overawed by threats rather than driven out ...
... deal of ruffianism on the part of his supporters , but he drew the line at the systematic murder of respect- able opponents , and would have preferred to see the opposite party in the assembly overawed by threats rather than driven out ...
Page 109
... deal . The odds were against Rome : the sturdy yeomen of the Apennine valleys were individually better men than the town - bred legions whom the consuls , Lucius Cæsar and Rutilius Lupus , led against them . It must be confessed ...
... deal . The odds were against Rome : the sturdy yeomen of the Apennine valleys were individually better men than the town - bred legions whom the consuls , Lucius Cæsar and Rutilius Lupus , led against them . It must be confessed ...
Page 118
... deal . To out - manœuvre Jugurtha at Bocchus's court , to talk round the Parthian ambassador ( whom his master afterwards executed for being so outwitted ) , were great delights to him . To outdo the wily barbarian in his own field of ...
... deal . To out - manœuvre Jugurtha at Bocchus's court , to talk round the Parthian ambassador ( whom his master afterwards executed for being so outwitted ) , were great delights to him . To outdo the wily barbarian in his own field of ...
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