Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page xi
... military campaigns and the condensation of certain paragraphs of less interest to the general reader . Mommsen's views as expressed in his original work remain unaltered . On many points they have been strongly controverted by other ...
... military campaigns and the condensation of certain paragraphs of less interest to the general reader . Mommsen's views as expressed in his original work remain unaltered . On many points they have been strongly controverted by other ...
Page 12
... military serv- ice , and commanded the army . Any magistrates , any religious colleges , any military officers , that he might appoint , derived all their power from him , and only existed during his pleasure . His power only ended with ...
... military serv- ice , and commanded the army . Any magistrates , any religious colleges , any military officers , that he might appoint , derived all their power from him , and only existed during his pleasure . His power only ended with ...
Page 13
... Military levies and money valuations were made according to curial divisions , and the burgesses met and voted by curies . Although all full citizens or burgesses were on a footing of absolute equality as regarded one another , the ...
... Military levies and money valuations were made according to curial divisions , and the burgesses met and voted by curies . Although all full citizens or burgesses were on a footing of absolute equality as regarded one another , the ...
Page 14
... military service , as they alone had the right of bearing arms . Hence the name populus ( " body of warriors , ' connected with populari , " to lay waste " ) ; hence , too , the name of quirites ( " lancemen " ) , given them by the king ...
... military service , as they alone had the right of bearing arms . Hence the name populus ( " body of warriors , ' connected with populari , " to lay waste " ) ; hence , too , the name of quirites ( " lancemen " ) , given them by the king ...
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... Military service was now changed from a burden upon birth to a burden on property . All freeholders , from seventeen to sixty years of age , whether burgesses , metics , or manumitted slaves , provided only they held land , were bound ...
... Military service was now changed from a burden upon birth to a burden on property . All freeholders , from seventeen to sixty years of age , whether burgesses , metics , or manumitted slaves , provided only they held land , were bound ...
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