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... historians have sought their solution . of the mystery in the powerful intercessions of the vestal virgins , and several others of high rank amongst the connections of his great house . These may have done something ; but it is due to ...
... historians have sought their solution . of the mystery in the powerful intercessions of the vestal virgins , and several others of high rank amongst the connections of his great house . These may have done something ; but it is due to ...
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... historians has been to represent these debts as the original ground of his ambition and his revolutionary projects , as though the desperate condition of his private affairs had sug- gested a civil war to his calculations as the best or ...
... historians has been to represent these debts as the original ground of his ambition and his revolutionary projects , as though the desperate condition of his private affairs had sug- gested a civil war to his calculations as the best or ...
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... historians generally , that he was a party to at least two other conspiracies . There was even a fourth , meditated by Crassus , which Cæsar so far encouraged as to undertake a journey to Rome from a very distant quarter , merely with a ...
... historians generally , that he was a party to at least two other conspiracies . There was even a fourth , meditated by Crassus , which Cæsar so far encouraged as to undertake a journey to Rome from a very distant quarter , merely with a ...
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... historians . Let us now , in conclusion , bring forward , from the obscurity in which they have hitherto lurked , the anecdotes which describe the habits of his private life , his tastes , and personal peculiari- ties . In person , he ...
... historians . Let us now , in conclusion , bring forward , from the obscurity in which they have hitherto lurked , the anecdotes which describe the habits of his private life , his tastes , and personal peculiari- ties . In person , he ...
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... historians ; but , as Cicero observes , their merit was such in the eyes of the dis- cerning , that all judicious writers shrank from the attempt to alter them . In another instance of his lite- rary labors , he showed a very just sense ...
... historians ; but , as Cicero observes , their merit was such in the eyes of the dis- cerning , that all judicious writers shrank from the attempt to alter them . In another instance of his lite- rary labors , he showed a very just sense ...
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