Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page 17
... followed by the union of cantons located on the other hills in the same neighborhood , but no new tribe was added to the original three , the new burgesses being distributed among the existing tribes and curies . Henceforth each of the ...
... followed by the union of cantons located on the other hills in the same neighborhood , but no new tribe was added to the original three , the new burgesses being distributed among the existing tribes and curies . Henceforth each of the ...
Page 25
... followed by other Greeks , not only from Asia Minor , but from Greece itself and the larger islands of the Aegean . These , in their new homes in southern Italy or Magna Graecia , as it was called , and in Sicily , recognizing their ...
... followed by other Greeks , not only from Asia Minor , but from Greece itself and the larger islands of the Aegean . These , in their new homes in southern Italy or Magna Graecia , as it was called , and in Sicily , recognizing their ...
Page 32
... restricting the regal authority was solved in genuine Roman fashion , with equal acuteness and simplicity , by the nameless states- men who worked out this revolution . 509-508 B.C. A further change of great importance followed the 32 ROME.
... restricting the regal authority was solved in genuine Roman fashion , with equal acuteness and simplicity , by the nameless states- men who worked out this revolution . 509-508 B.C. A further change of great importance followed the 32 ROME.
Page 33
... followed the new powers given to the community as a whole . The right of annually electing the consuls , and of deciding , upon appeal from a criminal , the life or ' death of a citizen , gave the public assembly something more than the ...
... followed the new powers given to the community as a whole . The right of annually electing the consuls , and of deciding , upon appeal from a criminal , the life or ' death of a citizen , gave the public assembly something more than the ...
Page 42
... definition of the tribunate as a " pestiferous power , the offspring of sedition , with sedition for its end and aim . " The events which followed the insti- 491-466 B.C. tution of the tribunes indicate a state of 42 ROME.
... definition of the tribunate as a " pestiferous power , the offspring of sedition , with sedition for its end and aim . " The events which followed the insti- 491-466 B.C. tution of the tribunes indicate a state of 42 ROME.
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