The Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 1Bell & Daldy, 1864 |
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... popular vote - The use made of place and power by those who had them - The Publicani and the Negotiatores in the Provinces- The Roman suffrage and the character of the electors - The Optimates and the Populares ; and the contest between ...
... popular vote - The use made of place and power by those who had them - The Publicani and the Negotiatores in the Provinces- The Roman suffrage and the character of the electors - The Optimates and the Populares ; and the contest between ...
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... popular party no longer kept any terms . The nobles looked only to their own interest and aggran- dizement , and as they possessed the real power , they were able by their union to resist the ill - combined assaults of the popular party ...
... popular party no longer kept any terms . The nobles looked only to their own interest and aggran- dizement , and as they possessed the real power , they were able by their union to resist the ill - combined assaults of the popular party ...
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... popular opinion was turning against Galba and all his arts would have failed , if he had not re- sorted to a trick . He presented his two young sons to the people and the son of C. Sulpicius Gallus , his kinsman , now an orphan under ...
... popular opinion was turning against Galba and all his arts would have failed , if he had not re- sorted to a trick . He presented his two young sons to the people and the son of C. Sulpicius Gallus , his kinsman , now an orphan under ...
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... popular election , except perhaps the Pon- tifex Maximus , if we may take Livy's statement as to the election of the year B.c. 212 , on which occasion he speaks of the choice of the Pontifex Maximus by popular election , as if it had ...
... popular election , except perhaps the Pon- tifex Maximus , if we may take Livy's statement as to the election of the year B.c. 212 , on which occasion he speaks of the choice of the Pontifex Maximus by popular election , as if it had ...
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... popular election of ecclesiastical persons would seem to every sensible Roman an absurd and dangerous principle . It was the opinion of Polybius and others that , even if the gods did not concern themselves about human affairs , it was ...
... popular election of ecclesiastical persons would seem to every sensible Roman an absurd and dangerous principle . It was the opinion of Polybius and others that , even if the gods did not concern themselves about human affairs , it was ...
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