Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... caused his retirement from active political life . The work by which Mommsen is most widely known is ' his “ History of Rome , ” in three volumes , published in 1854-1856 . The original plan of the author was to cover the whole field ...
... caused his retirement from active political life . The work by which Mommsen is most widely known is ' his “ History of Rome , ” in three volumes , published in 1854-1856 . The original plan of the author was to cover the whole field ...
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... caused his retirement from active political life . 66 The work by which Mommsen is most widely known is his History of Rome , " in three volumes , published in 1854-1856 . The original plan of the author was to cover the whole field ...
... caused his retirement from active political life . 66 The work by which Mommsen is most widely known is his History of Rome , " in three volumes , published in 1854-1856 . The original plan of the author was to cover the whole field ...
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... caused by the fre- quent inundations of the Tiber . Moreover , it was confined in all land directions by powerful cities . But all these disadvantages were more than compensated by the unfettered command it had of both banks of the ...
... caused by the fre- quent inundations of the Tiber . Moreover , it was confined in all land directions by powerful cities . But all these disadvantages were more than compensated by the unfettered command it had of both banks of the ...
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... causes must have all sufficed to threaten a revolution of the direst consequences to the Roman state . The new name of plebes , or multitude ( from pleo , plenus ) , by which the clients were now called , was ominous , signifying , as ...
... causes must have all sufficed to threaten a revolution of the direst consequences to the Roman state . The new name of plebes , or multitude ( from pleo , plenus ) , by which the clients were now called , was ominous , signifying , as ...
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... caused the absorption of a number of smaller states in a larger one , though not essentially a Roman nor even Italian idea , was carried out more consistently and perse- veringly by the Roman than by any other Italian canton ; and the ...
... caused the absorption of a number of smaller states in a larger one , though not essentially a Roman nor even Italian idea , was carried out more consistently and perse- veringly by the Roman than by any other Italian canton ; and the ...
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