Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page 39
... favor of the wealthy plebeian houses , the small farmers and tenants - on - sufferance , who needed it most , were ex- cluded from the common pasture . Moreover , to oblige men of their own order , the patrician quaestors gradually ...
... favor of the wealthy plebeian houses , the small farmers and tenants - on - sufferance , who needed it most , were ex- cluded from the common pasture . Moreover , to oblige men of their own order , the patrician quaestors gradually ...
Page 70
... favor , and placed Apulia and Campania in her hands . Her position was secured by the usual process of founding new fortresses ; e.g. , Luceria in Apulia , Saticula on the frontier of Campania and Samnium , Interamna , and Suessa ...
... favor , and placed Apulia and Campania in her hands . Her position was secured by the usual process of founding new fortresses ; e.g. , Luceria in Apulia , Saticula on the frontier of Campania and Samnium , Interamna , and Suessa ...
Page 70
... favor , and placed Apulia and Campania in her hands . Her position was secured by the usual process of founding new fortresses ; e.g. , Luceria in Apulia , Saticula on the frontier of Campania and Samnium , In- teramna , and Suessa ...
... favor , and placed Apulia and Campania in her hands . Her position was secured by the usual process of founding new fortresses ; e.g. , Luceria in Apulia , Saticula on the frontier of Campania and Samnium , In- teramna , and Suessa ...
Page 73
... favor of the gods and by their own capacity , began to come into contact in council and on the battle- field ; and as at Olympia the preliminary victors girt themselves for a second and more serious struggle , so on the larger arena of ...
... favor of the gods and by their own capacity , began to come into contact in council and on the battle- field ; and as at Olympia the preliminary victors girt themselves for a second and more serious struggle , so on the larger arena of ...
Page 80
... favor- ites , not native Greeks , exercised absolute authority as magistrates and judges in the various cities ; his own troops acted as garri- sons , and his own acts were arbitrary and despotic to the last degree . His reign thus ...
... favor- ites , not native Greeks , exercised absolute authority as magistrates and judges in the various cities ; his own troops acted as garri- sons , and his own acts were arbitrary and despotic to the last degree . His reign thus ...
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