A History of Rome: From 753 B.C. to A.D. 410Methuen, 1935 - 456 pagine |
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Pagina 16
... aristocrats , however , led almost from the first to very great dissatisfaction among a certain class of the population . Not that these aristocrats were what we ourselves should regard as very refined or cultured folk . Rome , let us ...
... aristocrats , however , led almost from the first to very great dissatisfaction among a certain class of the population . Not that these aristocrats were what we ourselves should regard as very refined or cultured folk . Rome , let us ...
Pagina 107
... aristocratic candidates or the passage of aristocratic legislation . One all too common method was bribery pure and simple . But there were others more subtle . It is a commonplace of statecraft that a mob is seldom intractable if kept ...
... aristocratic candidates or the passage of aristocratic legislation . One all too common method was bribery pure and simple . But there were others more subtle . It is a commonplace of statecraft that a mob is seldom intractable if kept ...
Pagina 131
... aristocratic landlords could feel comfortably secure against any further encroachment on their interests . In the same year an attempt was made to dispossess the knights of their new judicial privileges , but the attempt failed ; and ...
... aristocratic landlords could feel comfortably secure against any further encroachment on their interests . In the same year an attempt was made to dispossess the knights of their new judicial privileges , but the attempt failed ; and ...
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LAND AND PEOPLE | 1 |
THE ETRUSCANS AND ROME | 5 |
THE REPUBLIC AND ITS ORDEAL | 14 |
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