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... become a permanent badge of inferiority . The happiest guess of the many made by Roman antiquarians as to the origin of the Patricians was that they were originally the " free - born men ( ingenui ) , the men who could point to fathers ...
... become a permanent badge of inferiority . The happiest guess of the many made by Roman antiquarians as to the origin of the Patricians was that they were originally the " free - born men ( ingenui ) , the men who could point to fathers ...
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Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge. clientship was strictly hereditary ; but the bond must have become weaker with successive generations , after the evolution of plebeian rights , and at a time when clientes themselves possessed votes in the ...
Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge. clientship was strictly hereditary ; but the bond must have become weaker with successive generations , after the evolution of plebeian rights , and at a time when clientes themselves possessed votes in the ...
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... become a meinber of the familia . Plutarch ( Rom . 22 ) quotes a law of Romulus allowing the divorce of the wife ἐπὶ φαρμακείᾳ τέκνων ἢ κλειδῶν ὑποβόλῃ καὶ μοιχευθεῖσαν . child of the marriage was to be reared ( liberi 18 CHAP.- ROMAN ...
... become a meinber of the familia . Plutarch ( Rom . 22 ) quotes a law of Romulus allowing the divorce of the wife ἐπὶ φαρμακείᾳ τέκνων ἢ κλειδῶν ὑποβόλῃ καὶ μοιχευθεῖσαν . child of the marriage was to be reared ( liberi 18 CHAP.- ROMAN ...
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... becomes for ever the property of another . The father might sell him ; if beyond the limits of the country , the son becomes a slave ... become merely fictitious . 1 end to an inhuman traffic . The child as I 19 ROMAN FAMILY ORGANISATION.
... becomes for ever the property of another . The father might sell him ; if beyond the limits of the country , the son becomes a slave ... become merely fictitious . 1 end to an inhuman traffic . The child as I 19 ROMAN FAMILY ORGANISATION.
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... become heads of houses ; the daughters are also freed from power , although , out of deference to the weakness of the sex , they are still under guardianship ( tutela ) .1 The family splits up into a number of familiae , and none of ...
... become heads of houses ; the daughters are also freed from power , although , out of deference to the weakness of the sex , they are still under guardianship ( tutela ) .1 The family splits up into a number of familiae , and none of ...
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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.