Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... soon became usual , and from this usage the subsequent extensive powers of the senate were in great measure developed . To sum up , the oldest constitution of Rome was in some measure constitutional monarchy inverted . In the Roman ...
... soon became usual , and from this usage the subsequent extensive powers of the senate were in great measure developed . To sum up , the oldest constitution of Rome was in some measure constitutional monarchy inverted . In the Roman ...
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... soon 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 ...
... soon 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 ...
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... soon came to have a force and validity which did not properly belong to them . Lastly , the persons of the tribunes were declared inviolable , and the man who laid hands on them was counted accursed in the sight of gods and men . 495 ...
... soon came to have a force and validity which did not properly belong to them . Lastly , the persons of the tribunes were declared inviolable , and the man who laid hands on them was counted accursed in the sight of gods and men . 495 ...
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... soon practically took its place . A natural result of this development was the rise of a new opposition . This new demo- cratic party was formed no longer of plebeians , as such , but of the lower classes and the small farmers . But ...
... soon practically took its place . A natural result of this development was the rise of a new opposition . This new demo- cratic party was formed no longer of plebeians , as such , but of the lower classes and the small farmers . But ...
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... soon after the Sexto - Licinian laws , regulated the composition of that body . All who had been curule ediles , pretors , or consuls became members . The action of the censors was in this way greatly restricted , although it was still ...
... soon after the Sexto - Licinian laws , regulated the composition of that body . All who had been curule ediles , pretors , or consuls became members . The action of the censors was in this way greatly restricted , although it was still ...
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