A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From the triumvirate of Tiberius Gracchus to the fall of the Roman empireWalton and Maberly, 1864 - History, Ancient |
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... seen his exploits in Italy , down to his death at the battle of Campi Veteres in Lucania , and the honour paid by Hannibal to his remains ( B.c. 212 ) . His son , the second Tiberius Gracchus , inherited the liberal principles of which ...
... seen his exploits in Italy , down to his death at the battle of Campi Veteres in Lucania , and the honour paid by Hannibal to his remains ( B.c. 212 ) . His son , the second Tiberius Gracchus , inherited the liberal principles of which ...
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... seen to lift his hand to his head as a sign that his life was in danger . His enemies put a different * The early re - elections of tribunes , in the heat of the contest for the establish- ment of the rights of the Plebs , formed no ...
... seen to lift his hand to his head as a sign that his life was in danger . His enemies put a different * The early re - elections of tribunes , in the heat of the contest for the establish- ment of the rights of the Plebs , formed no ...
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... seen how the hope that Scipio might compose the disorders of the state was disappointed by the part he took on his return from Spain ; but , though he publicly approved the deed of Nasica , he supported Scævola in proposing to carry out ...
... seen how the hope that Scipio might compose the disorders of the state was disappointed by the part he took on his return from Spain ; but , though he publicly approved the deed of Nasica , he supported Scævola in proposing to carry out ...
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... seen in as marked an increase of the population as had fol- lowed the great distribution of new public lands after the Hannibalic War . The returns of the census , which we have seen falling off progressively for twenty years , rose in ...
... seen in as marked an increase of the population as had fol- lowed the great distribution of new public lands after the Hannibalic War . The returns of the census , which we have seen falling off progressively for twenty years , rose in ...
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... seen that the enfranchisement of the allies was said to have been one of the measures contemplated by Tiberius Grac- chus . At all events it was now revived ; and the nobles resolved to anticipate the danger by a new law against aliens ...
... seen that the enfranchisement of the allies was said to have been one of the measures contemplated by Tiberius Grac- chus . At all events it was now revived ; and the nobles resolved to anticipate the danger by a new law against aliens ...
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Page 155 - His legs bestrid the ocean ; his rear'd arm Crested the world ; his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends ; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder.
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