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During the last half of the second century before Christ Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilised world. A brilliant period of foreign conquest had succeeded the 300 years in which she had overcome her neighbours and made herself supreme in Italy. In 146 . she had given the death-blow to her greatest rival, Carthage, and had annexed Greece. In 140 treachery had rid her of Viriathus, the stubborn guerilla who defied her generals and defeated her armies in Spain. In 133 the terrible fate of Numantia, and in 132 the merciless suppression of the Sicilian slave-revolt, warned all foes of the Republic that the. | The Gracchi Marius and Sulla - Epochs Of Ancient History 1 The Gracchi Marius and Sulla - Epochs Of Ancient History The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Gracchi Marius and Sulla by . Beesley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs Of Ancient History Author . Beesley Release Date January 29 2004 EBook 10860 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GRACCHI MARIUS AND SULLA Produced by Stan Goodman Ted Garvin C. Markus and PG Distributed Proofreaders EPOCHS OF ANCIENT HISTORY THE GRACCHI MARIUS AND SULLA BY . BEESLEY WITH MAPS 1921 PREFACE It would be scarcely possible for anyone writing on the period embraced in this volume to perform his task adequately without making himself familiar with Mr. Long s History of the Decline of the Roman Republic and Mommsen s History of Rome. To do over again as though the work had never been attempted what has been done once for all accurately and well would be mere prudery of punctiliousness. But while I acknowledge my debt of gratitude to both these eminent historians I must add that for the whole period I have carefully examined the original authorities often coming to conclusions widely differing from those of Mr. Long. And I venture to hope that from the advantage I have had in being able to compare the works of two writers one of whom has well-nigh exhausted the theories as the other has the facts of the subject I have succeeded in giving a more consistent and faithful account of the leaders and legislation of the revolutionary era than has hitherto been written. Certainly there could be no more instructive commentary on either history than the study of the other for each supplements the other and emphasizes its defects. If