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... Rome never had a distinctively national character . Both are hybrid products . Her political institutions , however , are essentially her own , and are , one might almost say , the only characteristic prod- uct of the Roman genius . We ...
... Rome never had a distinctively national character . Both are hybrid products . Her political institutions , however , are essentially her own , and are , one might almost say , the only characteristic prod- uct of the Roman genius . We ...
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... ROME UNDER THE KINGS Section II - Descriptive II . MONARCHICAL INSTITUTIONS PART II - REPUBLICAN PERIOD Section I - Historical III . THE PATRICIAN CITY IV . THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE ORDERS V. THE SUPREMACY OF THE NOBILITAS VI . THE ...
... ROME UNDER THE KINGS Section II - Descriptive II . MONARCHICAL INSTITUTIONS PART II - REPUBLICAN PERIOD Section I - Historical III . THE PATRICIAN CITY IV . THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE ORDERS V. THE SUPREMACY OF THE NOBILITAS VI . THE ...
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... ROME UNDER THE KINGS I. The Gens . The basis of political organization among the early Romans was the gens or clan . This unit of organ- ization , which in one form or another is common to the Indo - European peoples , retained many of ...
... ROME UNDER THE KINGS I. The Gens . The basis of political organization among the early Romans was the gens or clan . This unit of organ- ization , which in one form or another is common to the Indo - European peoples , retained many of ...
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... Rome had suc- ceeded her in the headship of at least this group of communities . 3. The Founding of Rome . According to the pictur- esque account which Roman writers have left us in prose and verse of the founding of their native city , ...
... Rome had suc- ceeded her in the headship of at least this group of communities . 3. The Founding of Rome . According to the pictur- esque account which Roman writers have left us in prose and verse of the founding of their native city , ...
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... Rome to a descendant of Aeneas is only one of the many accounts which sought to bring Rome into connection with Greece . The stories of Evander , of Heracles , and of the Pelasgi , as they are recounted , for instance , by Livy , illus ...
... Rome to a descendant of Aeneas is only one of the many accounts which sought to bring Rome into connection with Greece . The stories of Evander , of Heracles , and of the Pelasgi , as they are recounted , for instance , by Livy , illus ...
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Page 415 - Fremant omnes licet, dicam quod sentio : bibliothecas mehercule omnium philosophorum unus mihi videtur XII Tabularum libellus, si quis legum fontes et capita viderit, et auctoritatis pondere et utilitatis ubertate superare.
Page 409 - Non pauci sunt, qui opinantur, ' pedarios senatores ' appellatos, qui sententiam in senatu non verbis dicerent, sed in alienam sententiam pedibus irent. Quid igitur?
Page 396 - Aeris confessi rebusque iure iudicatis triginta dies iusti sunto. Post deinde manus iniectio esto, in ius ducito. Ni iudicatum facit aut quis endo eo in iure vindicit, secum ducito, vincito aut nervo aut compedibus.
Page 397 - ... utique quos magistratum potestatem imperium curationemve cuius rei petentes senatui populoque Romano commendaverit, quibusque suffragationem suam dederit promiserit, eorum comitis quibusque extra ordinem ratio habeatur ; utique ei fines pomerii proferre promovere, cum ex re publica >5 censebit esse, liceat ita uti licuit Ti.
Page 397 - Crispinus consul . . .* populum iure rogavit populusque iure scivit in foro pro rostris aedis Divi lulii pr. K.3 lulias. Tribus Sergia principium fuit.
Page 416 - Percipietis etiam illam ex cognitione iuris laetitiam et voluptatem, quod, quantum praestiterint nostri maiores prudentia ceteris gentibus, tum facillime intellegetis, si cum illorum Lycurgo et Dracone et Solone nostras leges conferre volueritis. Incredibile est enim, quam sit omne ius civile praeter hoc nostrum inconditum ac paene ridiculum ; de quo multa soleo in sermonibus cotidianis dicere, cum hominum nostrorum prudentiam ceteris omnibus et maxime Graecis antepono.
Page 410 - Ijwcoxucov inscripta est equites quosdam dicit «pedarios» appellatos' videturque eos significare qui nondum a censoribus in senatum lecti senatores quidem non erant sed, quia honoribus populi usi erant, in senatum veniebant et sententiae ius habebant.
Page 413 - In libro Laelii Felicis ad Q. Mucium primo scriptum est, Labeonem scribere, ' calata ' comitia esse, quae pro conlegio pontificum habentur aut regis aut flaminum inaugurandorum causa.
Page 400 - Renuntiatum est nobis esse homines qui novum genus disciplinae instituerunt, ad quos iuventus in ludum conveniat; eos sibi nomen inposuisse Latinos rhetoras; ibi homines adulescentulos dies totos desidere. Maiores nostri quae liberos suos discere et quos in ludos itare vellent instituerunt. Haec nova, quae praeter consuetudinem ac morem maiorum fiunt, neque placent neque recta videntur.
Page 417 - ergo sunt cives Romani ex municipiis, legibus suis et suo iure utentes, muneris tantum cum populo Romano honorari participes, a quo munere capessendo appellati videntur, nullis aliis necessitatibus neque ulla populi Romani lege adstricti, nisi in quam populus eorum fundus factus est.