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... consul rarely failed to follow the instructions of the senate . The senate could meet only when called together by the king , and its meetings were held in a templum , or place consecrated by an augur . 20. Patricii , Clientes , Plebeii ...
... consul rarely failed to follow the instructions of the senate . The senate could meet only when called together by the king , and its meetings were held in a templum , or place consecrated by an augur . 20. Patricii , Clientes , Plebeii ...
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... his later title , the consul , differed from that of the king . The change in the method of choice was of less importance at first , since , as we shall shortly find , the popular assembly , in which the THE PATRICIAN CITY 25.
... his later title , the consul , differed from that of the king . The change in the method of choice was of less importance at first , since , as we shall shortly find , the popular assembly , in which the THE PATRICIAN CITY 25.
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Frank Frost Abbott. shortly find , the popular assembly , in which the consul was chosen , was controlled by the patricians , just as was the senate , which had practically chosen the king . The consul was invested with the imperium , as ...
Frank Frost Abbott. shortly find , the popular assembly , in which the consul was chosen , was controlled by the patricians , just as was the senate , which had practically chosen the king . The consul was invested with the imperium , as ...
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... consul , who was chosen from the ranks of the patricians , held office for a year only , and then returned to their number . Consequently his action must have been largely influenced by prejudice in favor of the patricians . We are not ...
... consul , who was chosen from the ranks of the patricians , held office for a year only , and then returned to their number . Consequently his action must have been largely influenced by prejudice in favor of the patricians . We are not ...
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... consul inherited the king's power in this matter , and the plebeians gained little from the new territory which their own valor had helped to secure . They suffered not only financially , but also politically , from this state of things ...
... consul inherited the king's power in this matter , and the plebeians gained little from the new territory which their own valor had helped to secure . They suffered not only financially , but also politically , from this state of things ...
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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.