Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page xi
... soldier , and of Cato as a tactless visionary , has perhaps not excited so much opposition as his ex- treme laudation of Caesar and his undisguised hero - worship for a man who accomplished things without hesitating as to the means ...
... soldier , and of Cato as a tactless visionary , has perhaps not excited so much opposition as his ex- treme laudation of Caesar and his undisguised hero - worship for a man who accomplished things without hesitating as to the means ...
Page 13
... soldier and each clan a horseman and senator . If communities com- bined , each was a part or tribe of the whole community . Originally each household had its own portion of land , but when households combined into a gens , each clan ...
... soldier and each clan a horseman and senator . If communities com- bined , each was a part or tribe of the whole community . Originally each household had its own portion of land , but when households combined into a gens , each clan ...
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... soldier , whether a full citizen or not , would be certain to have it in his power to become a centurion and , further , a military tribune . In the second , those rights which the burgesses had formerly possessed , not as an assembly ...
... soldier , whether a full citizen or not , would be certain to have it in his power to become a centurion and , further , a military tribune . In the second , those rights which the burgesses had formerly possessed , not as an assembly ...
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... soldiers became deeply rooted in the minds of the people . Viewing the revolution as a whole , its immediate effect was to establish an aristocratic government , by making the senate practi- cally supreme . But the germs of a more ...
... soldiers became deeply rooted in the minds of the people . Viewing the revolution as a whole , its immediate effect was to establish an aristocratic government , by making the senate practi- cally supreme . But the germs of a more ...
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... soldier in Rome , and a former tribune , was laid at the door of the decemvirs ; and the act of the centurion Lucius Verginius , who slew his own daughter to save her from the brutal lust of Appius , caused the storm of popular ...
... soldier in Rome , and a former tribune , was laid at the door of the decemvirs ; and the act of the centurion Lucius Verginius , who slew his own daughter to save her from the brutal lust of Appius , caused the storm of popular ...
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