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... favor of Caius Julius was of power sufficient to give him a share in any triumvirate which could be formed ; but , wanting the formality of a regular intro- duction to the people , and the ratification of their acceptance , that place ...
... favor of Caius Julius was of power sufficient to give him a share in any triumvirate which could be formed ; but , wanting the formality of a regular intro- duction to the people , and the ratification of their acceptance , that place ...
Side 67
... favor by a reversionary title , would have been deliberately to resign it . This would have been a confession of weakness liable to no disguise , and ruinous to any subsequent pretensions . Yet , without preparation of means , with no ...
... favor by a reversionary title , would have been deliberately to resign it . This would have been a confession of weakness liable to no disguise , and ruinous to any subsequent pretensions . Yet , without preparation of means , with no ...
Side 73
... favor from present power or past services . But , perhaps by no expressions of his civic spirit did Augustus so much conciliate men's minds , as by the readiness with which he participated in their social pleasures , and by the uniform ...
... favor from present power or past services . But , perhaps by no expressions of his civic spirit did Augustus so much conciliate men's minds , as by the readiness with which he participated in their social pleasures , and by the uniform ...
Side 77
... favors that earth and heaven could unite to shower upon them , all came to an early , a violent , and an infamous end . Fifthly , upon the death of Agrippa , and again upon motives of policy , and in atrocious . contempt of all the ties ...
... favors that earth and heaven could unite to shower upon them , all came to an early , a violent , and an infamous end . Fifthly , upon the death of Agrippa , and again upon motives of policy , and in atrocious . contempt of all the ties ...
Side 113
... favor of Otho , whose motives for committing suicide ( if truly reported ) argue great nobility of mind , 17 were even brutal in the tenor of their lives and monstrous ; besides that the extreme brevity of their several reigns ( all ...
... favor of Otho , whose motives for committing suicide ( if truly reported ) argue great nobility of mind , 17 were even brutal in the tenor of their lives and monstrous ; besides that the extreme brevity of their several reigns ( all ...
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