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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The also because these two rices that were bred in him, valiant- misery and covetousness, drowned all his vertue, ?ess of and well doing. For at the sack of the city of Tuder, which he took, he privily got the most part ., - of the spoil to himself, whereof he was accused before Sulla. Yet in the last battell of all this civil war (which was the greatest and most dangerous of all other) even before Rome itself, the wing that Sulla led, was repulsed and overthrown: but Crassus that led the right wing, overcame his enemies, followed them in chase till midnight, sent Sulla word of his victory, and demanded victuals for his men. But then again he ran into as great defame, for buying, or begging the confiscate goods of the outlaws appointed to be slain, for little or nothing. And it is said also, that he made one an outlaw in the country of the Bruttians, without Sulla's privity or commandment, only to have his goods. But Sulla being told of it, would never after use him in any open service. Surely this is a strange thing, that Crassus self being a great flatterer of other, and could creep into any man's favour: was yet himself easy to be won through flattery, of any man that would seek him that way. Furthermore, it is said of him that he had this property: that though himself was as extremely covetous as might be, yet he bitterly reproved and utterly misliked them that had his own humour of avarice. Pompey's honour that he attained unto daily, by bearing great charge and rule in the wars, did greatly trouble Crassus: both because he obtained the honour of triumph before he came to be senator, and also for that the Romans commonly called him, Pompeius Magnus, to say, Pompey the Great. Crassus being in place on a time when one Crassus' said that saw Pompey coming, see, Pompey the...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217533294 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217533299 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 274 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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