Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... authority was carried by the Romans , and the merciless rigor with which a slave was treated by them . The meager and meaningless character of individual names among the Romans , when contrasted with the luxuriant and poetic fullness of ...
... authority was carried by the Romans , and the merciless rigor with which a slave was treated by them . The meager and meaningless character of individual names among the Romans , when contrasted with the luxuriant and poetic fullness of ...
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... authority alike as father or husband was supreme , and in the eye of the law as absolute over wife and child as over slave . Though a woman could acquire property , she was under the absolute dominion of her father , or , if married ...
... authority alike as father or husband was supreme , and in the eye of the law as absolute over wife and child as over slave . Though a woman could acquire property , she was under the absolute dominion of her father , or , if married ...
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... authority was so absolute , he never came to be regarded by the Romans as other than mortal , nor , as by divine right , higher and better than his fellow - citizens . This view of the kingship was at once the moral and practical ...
... authority was so absolute , he never came to be regarded by the Romans as other than mortal , nor , as by divine right , higher and better than his fellow - citizens . This view of the kingship was at once the moral and practical ...
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... authority for five days , and this interrex appointed the next , thus passing on the five days ' sovereign power to one of his own body . Finally , one of these interreges , but never the one first chosen , nominated the king , and his ...
... authority for five days , and this interrex appointed the next , thus passing on the five days ' sovereign power to one of his own body . Finally , one of these interreges , but never the one first chosen , nominated the king , and his ...
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... authority in the state , and that every exceptional resolution required the sanction of the sovereign , or , in other words , of the community of the people . We have already stated that the earliest amalgamation in the 16 ROME.
... authority in the state , and that every exceptional resolution required the sanction of the sovereign , or , in other words , of the community of the people . We have already stated that the earliest amalgamation in the 16 ROME.
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