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Page 51 - ex patribus legit, eique sacra omnia exscripta exsignataque attribuit, quibus hostiis, quibus diebus. ad quae templa sacra fierent, atque unde in eos sumptus pecunia erogaretur. Cetera quoque omnia publica privataque sacra Pontificis scitis subjecit, ut esset, quo consultum plebes venirct: ne quid divini juris,
Page 355 - Augustus or Trajan would have blushed at employing the meanest of the Romans in those menial offices which, in the household and bedchamber of a limited monarch, are so eagerly solicited by the proudest nobles of Britain.
Page 341 - quae de imperio ejus lata est, populus ei et in eum omne suum imperium et potestatem conferat.
Page 87 - ex bis legibus . . . actiones compositae sunt, quibus inter se homines disceptarent: quas actiones ne populus prout vellet institueret, certas sollemnesque esse voluerunt . . . Omnium tamen harum et interpretandi scientia et actiones apud collegium
Page viii - the purity of the Latin language was debased by adopting, in the intercourse of pride and flattery, a profusion of epithets, which Tully would have scarcely understood, and which Augustus would have rejected with indignation,
Page 427 - Forma censuali cavetur, ut agri sic in censum referantur. Nomen fundi cujusque : et in qua civitate et in quo pago sit: et quos duos vicinos proximos habeat. Et arvum
Page 59 - Praeteriti senatores quondam in opprobrio non erant, quod, ut reges sibi legebant sublegebantque, quos in consilio publico haberent, ita post exactos eos consules quoque et tribuni militum consular!
Page 239 - jus esset. Itaque censeo cum tribunis plebis agendum esse ut eorum unus pluresve rogationem ferant ad plebem qua nobis statuendi de Campanis jus fiat.' L. Atilius tribunus plebis ex auctoritate senatus plebem in haec verba rogavit
Page 204 - autem jus esse putatur id, quod voluntate omnium sine lege vetustas comprobarit . . . Quo in genere et alia sunt multa et eorum multo maxima pars, quae praetores edicere consuerunt.
Page 203 - per legem Aebutiam et duas Julias sublatae sunt istae legis actiones ; effectumque est ut per concepta verba, id est, per formulas, litigaremus";