Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... Cato as a tactless visionary , has perhaps not excited so much opposition as his ex- treme laudation of Caesar and his undisguised hero - worship for a man who accomplished things without hesitating as to the means employed . But a ...
... Cato as a tactless visionary , has perhaps not excited so much opposition as his ex- treme laudation of Caesar and his undisguised hero - worship for a man who accomplished things without hesitating as to the means employed . But a ...
Page 112
... Cato the Elder , on seeing the still fresh traces of his work , exclaimed that no king was worthy to be named by the side of Hamilcar Barca . After nine years of constant war with the Spanish native tribes , when he was begin- ning to ...
... Cato the Elder , on seeing the still fresh traces of his work , exclaimed that no king was worthy to be named by the side of Hamilcar Barca . After nine years of constant war with the Spanish native tribes , when he was begin- ning to ...
Page 155
... Cato in Sar- dinia , scrupulously observed the legal injunction . But the tempta- tion was too great ; the control exercised by the senate over the governors was of necessity very lax , and the complaints of the governed , unless the ...
... Cato in Sar- dinia , scrupulously observed the legal injunction . But the tempta- tion was too great ; the control exercised by the senate over the governors was of necessity very lax , and the complaints of the governed , unless the ...
Page 157
... Cato ( 234-149 B.C. ) . This rough Sabine farmer had been induced to enter upon a political career by a noble of the ... Cato and his friend and colleague , Lucius Flaccus , stood as candi- dates for the censorship in 184 B.C. , all the ...
... Cato ( 234-149 B.C. ) . This rough Sabine farmer had been induced to enter upon a political career by a noble of the ... Cato and his friend and colleague , Lucius Flaccus , stood as candi- dates for the censorship in 184 B.C. , all the ...
Page 158
... Cato failed to carry his proposal to institute four hundred new equestrian stalls , and thus remedy the decline of the burgess cavalry , the necessities of war had long before compelled the government to reduce the rating which allowed ...
... Cato failed to carry his proposal to institute four hundred new equestrian stalls , and thus remedy the decline of the burgess cavalry , the necessities of war had long before compelled the government to reduce the rating which allowed ...
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