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... Holmes more than on any other modern historian , not only because of his eminence as a classical scholar , but also because of the elaborate notes appended to his history of the Roman Republic , in which the opinions of no less than 277 ...
... Holmes more than on any other modern historian , not only because of his eminence as a classical scholar , but also because of the elaborate notes appended to his history of the Roman Republic , in which the opinions of no less than 277 ...
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... Holmes , was relegated to the pack animals . - The soldier's staple food was wheat , issued in the grain , ground by him in a portable hand mill- another gadget he had to carry - and made into a rough kind of bread , probably resembling ...
... Holmes , was relegated to the pack animals . - The soldier's staple food was wheat , issued in the grain , ground by him in a portable hand mill- another gadget he had to carry - and made into a rough kind of bread , probably resembling ...
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... Holmes suggests , honour a secret pledge he had given him at Luca.1 He authorized a bill which granted Caesar the privilege to stand for the consulship in absentia , and because it was passed by the whole college of tribunes , it was ...
... Holmes suggests , honour a secret pledge he had given him at Luca.1 He authorized a bill which granted Caesar the privilege to stand for the consulship in absentia , and because it was passed by the whole college of tribunes , it was ...
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CHAPTER I | 15 |
Inauguration of the Century of Revolution | 22 |
The First Civil | 28 |
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