Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... elected by the public assembly . The senate was still composed exclusively of patricians , but on occasions . when its advice was asked , side by side with the patres , or true 509-508 B.C. patrician senators , a number of non - THE ...
... elected by the public assembly . The senate was still composed exclusively of patricians , but on occasions . when its advice was asked , side by side with the patres , or true 509-508 B.C. patrician senators , a number of non - THE ...
Page 41
... elected by the plebeians assembled in curies . Their power was confined to the city's limits , and thus could not oppose the military imperium of the consul , which was all - powerful outside those limits , nor the authority of the ...
... elected by the plebeians assembled in curies . Their power was confined to the city's limits , and thus could not oppose the military imperium of the consul , which was all - powerful outside those limits , nor the authority of the ...
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... elected by the whole burgess - body , and not merely by the plebeians . There- fore the consul alone had the outward insignia of office ; the tribune lacked official attendants and the purple - bordered robe , and had no seat in the ...
... elected by the whole burgess - body , and not merely by the plebeians . There- fore the consul alone had the outward insignia of office ; the tribune lacked official attendants and the purple - bordered robe , and had no seat in the ...
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... elected by the centuries , for the purpose of drawing it up . These decem- virs had full powers as supreme magistrates in the place of the consuls ; no appeal was allowed in their case ; the tribunate was sus- pended ; and , what was ...
... elected by the centuries , for the purpose of drawing it up . These decem- virs had full powers as supreme magistrates in the place of the consuls ; no appeal was allowed in their case ; the tribunate was sus- pended ; and , what was ...
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... elected fifty times , and the patrician consuls twenty - three times . The miserable shifts by which the patricians thus sought to baffle their opponents found further expression in the creation of the censorship in 435 B.C. The two ...
... elected fifty times , and the patrician consuls twenty - three times . The miserable shifts by which the patricians thus sought to baffle their opponents found further expression in the creation of the censorship in 435 B.C. The two ...
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