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Page vii
... verdict with which I agree in part . The organisation which had Constantinople as its centre was certainly the organisation of an Empire which was permeated with the social 284112 ideals of later Rome , which had adopted a Latin.
... verdict with which I agree in part . The organisation which had Constantinople as its centre was certainly the organisation of an Empire which was permeated with the social 284112 ideals of later Rome , which had adopted a Latin.
Page viii
... Latin language was debased by adopting , in the intercourse of pride and flattery , a profusion of epithets , which Tully would have scarcely under- stood , and which Augustus would have rejected with indignation , " but that , even ...
... Latin language was debased by adopting , in the intercourse of pride and flattery , a profusion of epithets , which Tully would have scarcely under- stood , and which Augustus would have rejected with indignation , " but that , even ...
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... Latin , by others to be Etruscan . There is , however , a rival tradition of the artificial creation of these tribes by the first Roman king , and , when we remember the arbitrary applica- tion in the Greek world of tribe - names that ...
... Latin , by others to be Etruscan . There is , however , a rival tradition of the artificial creation of these tribes by the first Roman king , and , when we remember the arbitrary applica- tion in the Greek world of tribe - names that ...
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... Latin popu- lation . The existence of Sabine gods like Sancus , or Sabine ritual as typified in Numa Pompilius , is no more evidence of Sabine intermixture than the early reception of Hellenic deities is of Greek ; and though it is ...
... Latin popu- lation . The existence of Sabine gods like Sancus , or Sabine ritual as typified in Numa Pompilius , is no more evidence of Sabine intermixture than the early reception of Hellenic deities is of Greek ; and though it is ...
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... Latin league is attested for a very early period , and they may even have been extended to cities outside the league.3 As the jus commercii implies the right of suing and being sued in one's own person before Roman courts , there seems ...
... Latin league is attested for a very early period , and they may even have been extended to cities outside the league.3 As the jus commercii implies the right of suing and being sued in one's own person before Roman courts , there seems ...
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Page 341 - Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem: utpote cum lege regia, quae de imperio eius lata est, populus ei et in eum omne suum imperium et potestatem conferat...
Page 82 - Deinde, quo plus virium in senatu frequentia etiam ordinis faceret, caedibus regis deminutum patrum numerum primoribus equestris gradus lectis ad trecentorum summam explevit; traditumque inde fertur, ut in senatum vocarentur, qui patres quique conscripti essent: conscriptos videlicet appellabant lectos.
Page 87 - ... harum et interpretandi scientia et actiones apud collegium pontificum erant, ex quibus constituebatur, quis quoquo anno praeesset privatis.
Page 27 - calata ' appellari diximus, et sacrorum detestatio et testamenta fieri solebant. Tria enim genera testamentorum fuisse accepimus : unum, quod calatis comitiis in populi contione fieret, alterum in procinctu, cum viri ad proelium faciendum in aciem vocabantur, tertium per familiae emancipationem, cui aes et libra adhiberetur. In eodem Laelii Felicis libro haec scripta sunt : Is qui non ut universum populum, sed partem aliquam adesse iubet, non ' comitia,' sed ' concilium
Page 126 - Uude olim patricii dicebant plebiscitis se non teneri, quia sine auctoritate eorum facta essent. sed postea lex Hortensia lata est, qua cautum est ut plebiscita universum populum tenerent.
Page 301 - Item municipes erant, qui ex aliis civitatibus Romam venissent, quibus non licebat magistratum capere, sed tantum muneris partem, ut fuerunt Cumani, Acerrani, Atellani, qui et cives Romani erant, et in legione merebant, sed dignitates non capiebant (117 L).
Page 242 - Minus quam perfecta lex est quae vetat aliquid fieri et si factum sit non rescindit sed poenam injungit ei qui contra legem fecit : qualis est lex Furia testamentaria quae plus quam mille assium legatum mortisve causa prohibet capere praeter exceptas personas, et adversus eum qui plus ceperit quadrupli poenam constituit, Ulpian, 1, 2.
Page 26 - In suis heredibus evidentius apparet continuationem dominii eo rem perducere, ut nulla videatur hereditas fuisse, quasi olim hi domini essent qui etiam vivo patre quodammodo domini existimantur : unde etiam filiusfamilias appellatur sicut paterfamilias, sola nota hac adjecta per quam distinguitur genitor ab eo qui genitus sit.
Page 64 - Neminem voluerunt majores nostri, non modo de existimatione cujusquam, sed ne pecuniaria quidem de re minima, esse judicem, nisi qui inter adversarios convenisset.
Page 61 - Namque antea, profectis domo regibus, ac mox magistratibus , ne urbs sine imperio foret, in tempus deligebatur qui jus redderet ac subitis mederetur : feruntque ab Romulo Dentrem Romulium , post ab Tullo Hostilio Numam Marcium , et ab Tarquinio Superbo Spurium Lucretium, impositos.