Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page 34
... consuls in office did not vote , but they selected the new members of the senate , alike the patres and the plebeian ... consulship entailed upon the holder of it admission to the senate for life ; that vacancies in the senate were not ...
... consuls in office did not vote , but they selected the new members of the senate , alike the patres and the plebeian ... consulship entailed upon the holder of it admission to the senate for life ; that vacancies in the senate were not ...
Page 47
... consulship by a compromise which sought to retain many of the privileges of the office for the patricians . Each year the people were to vote whether there should be the usual consuls or whether their place should be taken by six ...
... consulship by a compromise which sought to retain many of the privileges of the office for the patricians . Each year the people were to vote whether there should be the usual consuls or whether their place should be taken by six ...
Page 48
... consuls enjoyed . Dur- ing the period of nearly eighty years , from 444 B.C. to the throwing open of the consulship to the plebeians by the Licinian law in 367 B.C. , we find that the military tribunes were elected fifty times , and the ...
... consuls enjoyed . Dur- ing the period of nearly eighty years , from 444 B.C. to the throwing open of the consulship to the plebeians by the Licinian law in 367 B.C. , we find that the military tribunes were elected fifty times , and the ...
Page 118
... consulship , did not wait for his colleague , Graeus Servilius , to leave his useless post at Ariminum , and join him . Fired by his ambition to justify the good opinion of the democrats , and stung by the sight of the devastation which ...
... consulship , did not wait for his colleague , Graeus Servilius , to leave his useless post at Ariminum , and join him . Fired by his ambition to justify the good opinion of the democrats , and stung by the sight of the devastation which ...
Page 119
... consulship to Flaminius , he was as opposed in strategy as in policy to his pred- ecessor . Determined to avoid a pitched battle and to wear out Hannibal by small conflicts and deprivation of provisions , Fabius followed Hannibal as he ...
... consulship to Flaminius , he was as opposed in strategy as in policy to his pred- ecessor . Determined to avoid a pitched battle and to wear out Hannibal by small conflicts and deprivation of provisions , Fabius followed Hannibal as he ...
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