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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 275

An illustration from The comic history of Rome, 1850, leaf 275 — n on the other; and C. PapiriusCarbo, a demagogue, who had got the place of tribune, proposed thatthe people should have the right of re-electing the same person to thetribuneship over and over again,—a suggestion designed to render hisown position permanent. Scipio JEmilianus opposed the measure… … Scipio iEmilianus cramming himself for a Speech after a hearty Supper. CHAP. XXIII.] CAIUS S. GRACCHUS. 24 I found dead in his bed ; and, though probability points to apoplexy asthe cause, the historians have—without much, indeed, of evidence—returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against C. P. Carbo.…

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