Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . capacity he had ejecteddisreputable senators from the Curia ; he haddegraded offending Equites ; he had rearranged and tried to purify the his connections were aristocratic. His wife was the daughter of the mostfamous of them, Scipio Africanus the Younger. He had been himself in antag-onism with the tribunes, and had taken no part, at any time, in popular father died when Tiberius was still a boy, and the two brothers g
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . capacity he had ejecteddisreputable senators from the Curia ; he haddegraded offending Equites ; he had rearranged and tried to purify the his connections were aristocratic. His wife was the daughter of the mostfamous of them, Scipio Africanus the Younger. He had been himself in antag-onism with the tribunes, and had taken no part, at any time, in popular father died when Tiberius was still a boy, and the two brothers grew upunder the care of their mother, a noble and gifted lady. They early displayedremarkable talents. Tiberius, when old enough, went into the army, and servedunder his brother-in-law in the last Carthaginian campaign. He was first on thewalls of the city in the final storm. Ten years later he went to Spain as quaestor,when he carried on his fathers popularity, and by taking the peoples sidein some questions, fell into disagreement with his brother-in-law. His politicalviews had perhaps already inclined to change. He was still of an age when.
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