Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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Page 38
... friends died of an obscure distemper , 1 he accused his enemies of having poisoned him , and made 1 The man died with symptoms which his friends could not understand , and spots broke out on his body . This in Roman folk - lore was ...
... friends died of an obscure distemper , 1 he accused his enemies of having poisoned him , and made 1 The man died with symptoms which his friends could not understand , and spots broke out on his body . This in Roman folk - lore was ...
Page 42
... friend of the people . " To accuse him of mere ambition and love of authority would be unfair . Though he was busily engaged in breaking up the old constitution of Rome , he does not seem to have been aware of the fact . By legis ...
... friend of the people . " To accuse him of mere ambition and love of authority would be unfair . Though he was busily engaged in breaking up the old constitution of Rome , he does not seem to have been aware of the fact . By legis ...
Page 43
... friend . The matter would lie , as usual , in the hands of the urban populace , and the enemies of Gracchus were not without hopes that a combination of influence , intimidation , and bribery might secure them a majority in that very ...
... friend . The matter would lie , as usual , in the hands of the urban populace , and the enemies of Gracchus were not without hopes that a combination of influence , intimidation , and bribery might secure them a majority in that very ...
Page 44
... friend from imminent peril of death . His indignant partisans closed around him , vowing that he should be preserved at all costs , and for the next few days he went about with a sort of bodyguard armed with staves and bearing torches ...
... friend from imminent peril of death . His indignant partisans closed around him , vowing that he should be preserved at all costs , and for the next few days he went about with a sort of bodyguard armed with staves and bearing torches ...
Page 46
... friends and servants and to sally out into the streets to murder him . Without waiting to see whether or no the report was exaggerated or the enemy really at hand , Tiberius gave the signal for hostilities by making the preconcerted ...
... friends and servants and to sally out into the streets to murder him . Without waiting to see whether or no the report was exaggerated or the enemy really at hand , Tiberius gave the signal for hostilities by making the preconcerted ...
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