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 . >t republics, Spartan ? ici ex- - ..iiplest Iccted in iirs. He o the ^ % ^^ was born a1^ he. i He was one i . e irn died in infancy, him- :s, and h Cornelia IHOOAflO aHT 10 aaHTOM aHT, ;,,>,. ,mily was Tff fv, his ancestors HaoviAJUoa avATaau ,.|j jj^g high- M the moth- .? c:..;,,;,, Af. d. had grew up ? -1 . ., ,..d ^t on tlie quaestor, side -?•?)1 11 of a a GU STAVE BOULANGER. nusi»» s/i^t:fetfi9a3a^stuii>:!iia a. Jl ?..i-««ij.^m4;^s»K
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 . >t republics, Spartan ? ici ex- - ..iiplest Iccted in iirs. He o the ^ % ^^ was born a1^ he. i He was one i . e irn died in infancy, him- :s, and h Cornelia IHOOAflO aHT 10 aaHTOM aHT, ;,,>,. ,mily was Tff fv, his ancestors HaoviAJUoa avATaau ,.|j jj^g high- M the moth- .? c:..;,,;,, Af. d. had grew up ? -1 . ., ,..d ^t on tlie quaestor, side -?•?)1 11 of a a GU STAVE BOULANGER. nusi»» s/i^t:fetfi9a3a^stuii>:!iia a. Jl ?..i-««ij.^m4;^s»K»^,n^M.|.,*!Tr? THE GRACCHI 21 indignation at oppression calls out a practical desire to resist it. On his jflur-ney home from Spain he witnessed scenes which confirmed his conviction anddetermined him to throw all his energies into the popular cause. His road laythrough Tuscany, where he saw the large estate system in full operation—thefields cultivated by the slave gangs, the free citizens of the Republic thrust awayinto the towns, aliens and outcasts in their own country, without a foot of soilwhich they could call their own. In Tuscany, too, the vast domains of the land-lords had not even been fairly purchased. They were parcels of the agcrpublicus,land belonging to the state, which, in spite of a law forbidding it, the great lordsand commoners had appropriated and divided among themselves. Five hundredacres of state land was the most which by statute any one lessee might be al-lowed to occupy. But t
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