Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... position of a clan , as a separate power , in a Greek , was far higher than in a Roman state . Again , although the fundamental ideas of the Roman constitution - a king , a senate , and an assembly authorized merely to accept or reject ...
... position of a clan , as a separate power , in a Greek , was far higher than in a Roman state . Again , although the fundamental ideas of the Roman constitution - a king , a senate , and an assembly authorized merely to accept or reject ...
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... position , mountain tops ( capitolia ) or strongholds ( arces ) . In time houses began to cluster round the stronghold , and were sur- rounded with the " ring " ( urbs ) , thus the nucleus of a town was formed , which tended gradually ...
... position , mountain tops ( capitolia ) or strongholds ( arces ) . In time houses began to cluster round the stronghold , and were sur- rounded with the " ring " ( urbs ) , thus the nucleus of a town was formed , which tended gradually ...
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... position , and had no polit- ical signification , certainly none as denoting any sort of leadership or command of the rest of the Latin cantons . But , vague as the outlines of this early canton life must necessarily be , they show us ...
... position , and had no polit- ical signification , certainly none as denoting any sort of leadership or command of the rest of the Latin cantons . But , vague as the outlines of this early canton life must necessarily be , they show us ...
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... position in Latium . The soil is unfavorable to the growth of fig or vine , and in addition . to the want of good water - springs , swamps are caused by the fre- quent inundations of the Tiber . Moreover , it was confined in all land ...
... position in Latium . The soil is unfavorable to the growth of fig or vine , and in addition . to the want of good water - springs , swamps are caused by the fre- quent inundations of the Tiber . Moreover , it was confined in all land ...
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... position was practically one of considerable free- dom ; and in the course of several generations the clients of a household acquired more and more liberty . Everyone who was a member of a Roman family , and therefore of one of the ...
... position was practically one of considerable free- dom ; and in the course of several generations the clients of a household acquired more and more liberty . Everyone who was a member of a Roman family , and therefore of one of the ...
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