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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 90 90 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus (ed. L. C. Purser) 12 12 Browse Search
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero 11 11 Browse Search
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C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War 2 2 Browse Search
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome 2 2 Browse Search
Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White) 1 1 Browse Search
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) 1 1 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller) 1 1 Browse Search
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White), BOOK II, CHAPTER II (search)
public land to them. The best part of this land around Capua,This land had been public domain ever since the second Punic war. ( Velleius, ii. 44.) which was leased for the public benefit, he proposed to bestow upon those who were the fathers of at least three children, by which means he bought for himself the favor of a multitude of men. Twenty-thousand, who had three children each, came forward at once. As many senators opposed his motion he B.C. 59 pretended to be indignant at their injustice, and rushed out of the Senate and did not convene it again for the remainder of the year,"Appian and Dion are wrong in affirming that he ceased to assemble the Senate; for he called them together several times, among others to make them swear to observe his law and to declare Ptolemy and Ariovistus friends of the Roman people," etc. (Duruy, iii. 206.) but harangued the people from the rostra. In a publi