The Roman Assemblies from Their Origin to the End of the Republic, Volume 4

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Macmillan, 1909 - 521 pagine
 

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Pagina 347 - ... of any one being checked and thwarted by the others, must plainly check this tendency: and so the proper equilibrium is maintained by the impulsiveness of the one part being checked by its fear of the other.
Pagina 130 - Pleusicles, sinite me priu' perspectare, ne uspiam insidiae sient concilium quod habere uolumus. nam opus est nunc tuto loco unde inimicus ne quis nostri spolia capiat consili. 5 nam bene consultum inconsultumst, si id inimicis usuist, 600 ñeque polest quin, si id inimicis usuist, opsit tibi ; nam bene (consultum) consilium surrupitur saepissume, si minu' cum cura aut cautela locu
Pagina 122 - Ferri de singulis nisi centuriatis comitiis noluerunt. Descriptus enim populus censu, ordinibus, aetatibus plus adhibet ad suffragium consilii quam fuse in tribus convocatus. Quo verius in causa nostra vir magni ingenii summaque prudentia, L. Cotta, dicebat nihil omnino actum esse de nobis; praeter enim quam quod comitia...
Pagina 178 - Ill, further assumes that the law contained the formula of treaty on which, in his opinion, the state rested, and that before the age of written documents this treaty was handed down orally through the repetition of the law. Lange's theory, which runs throughout his great work, seems to rest on the single statement of Tacitus, Ann. xi, 22: " Quaestores regibus etiam turn imperantibus instituti sunt, quod lex curiata ostendit a L. Bruto repetita.
Pagina 35 - thrived so that he had fully five hides of land," or the. merchant who had "fared twice over the wide sea by his own means," became a thane ; " and if the thane thrived, so that he became an eorl, then was he henceforth worthy of eorl-right...
Pagina 66 - Infra classem autem appellabantur secundae classis ceterarumque omnium classium, qui minore summa aeris, quam supra dixi, censebantur. Hoc eo strictim notavi, quoniam in M. Catonis oratione, qua Voconiam legem suasit, quaeri solet quid sit classicus, quid infra classem.
Pagina 94 - Nihil fere quondam maioris rei nisi auspicato ne privatim quidem gerebatur, quod etiam nunc nuptiarum auspices declarant, qui, re omissa, nomen 1 Deiotarus was tetrarch of Gallograecia and king of Lesser Armenia ; cf.
Pagina 236 - Optima lex: . . . in magistro populi faciendo, qui vulgo 'dictator' appellatur, quam plenissimum posset ius eius esse, significabatur, ut fuit Mani Valerii MF Volusi nepotis, qui primus magister populi creatus est; postquam vero provocatio ab eo magistratu ad populum data est, quae ante non erat, desitum est adici 'ut optima lege', utpote imminuto iure priorum magistrorum.
Pagina 66 - Classic? dicebantur non omnes qui in quinque classibus erant, sed primae tantum classis homines, qui centum et viginti quinque milia aeris ampliusve censi erant. "Infra classem" autem appellabantur secundae classis ceterarumque omnium classium, qui minore summa aeris, quam quod supra dixi, censebantur.
Pagina 347 - Nay, even when these external alarms are past, and the people are enjoying their good fortune and the fruits of their victories, and, as usually happens, growing corrupted by flattery and idleness, show a tendency to violence and arrogance — it is in these circumstances, more than ever, that the constitution is seen to possess within itself the power of correcting abuses.

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