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... freedmen . Not being members of any one of the recognized gentes , they gained certain privileges by attaching themselves to the head of a family belonging to a gens . Their protector was known as a patronus , who represented them ...
... freedmen . Not being members of any one of the recognized gentes , they gained certain privileges by attaching themselves to the head of a family belonging to a gens . Their protector was known as a patronus , who represented them ...
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... freedmen and of freemen with less than two acres of land . Probably neither of these classes was enrolled in the tribes at this time , while the proletarii , that is , the citizens who owned no land or had less than two acres , were ...
... freedmen and of freemen with less than two acres of land . Probably neither of these classes was enrolled in the tribes at this time , while the proletarii , that is , the citizens who owned no land or had less than two acres , were ...
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... freedmen's sons in the list of senators , which , under the Ovinian law , it was his duty as censor to draw up . An equally revolu- tionary proceeding was his conduct in securing the election of Cn . Flavius , the son of a freedman , as ...
... freedmen's sons in the list of senators , which , under the Ovinian law , it was his duty as censor to draw up . An equally revolu- tionary proceeding was his conduct in securing the election of Cn . Flavius , the son of a freedman , as ...
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... freedmen to remain in the tribal organization , but assigned them to the four city tribes , which were so large that individual votes were of compara- tively little avail . The sons of freedmen were again treated as ineligible to the ...
... freedmen to remain in the tribal organization , but assigned them to the four city tribes , which were so large that individual votes were of compara- tively little avail . The sons of freedmen were again treated as ineligible to the ...
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... freedmen , and of freemen out of work , and , on the other , the acquisition of large fortunes by a few , had a most disastrous effect on Roman politics . A large number of freedmen and of those who had lost their holdings or their ...
... freedmen , and of freemen out of work , and , on the other , the acquisition of large fortunes by a few , had a most disastrous effect on Roman politics . A large number of freedmen and of those who had lost their holdings or their ...
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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.