Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... answer ; and the lex , or law , which was the outcome of this process , was not in its origin a command of a king , but a contract proposed by the king and 1 accepted or refused by his hearers . The citizens alone 14 ROME.
... answer ; and the lex , or law , which was the outcome of this process , was not in its origin a command of a king , but a contract proposed by the king and 1 accepted or refused by his hearers . The citizens alone 14 ROME.
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From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C. Theodor Mommsen Arthur Charles Howland. accepted or refused by his hearers . The citizens alone could allow a man to make such a will as transferred his property on his death to another ; they alone ...
From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C. Theodor Mommsen Arthur Charles Howland. accepted or refused by his hearers . The citizens alone could allow a man to make such a will as transferred his property on his death to another ; they alone ...
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... refused to obey . One of the consuls , Publius Servilius , induced them to do so , by sus- pending the law and ... refused to agree to the reforms proposed by the dictator . On the news of this refusal reaching the army , arrayed 495-449 ...
... refused to obey . One of the consuls , Publius Servilius , induced them to do so , by sus- pending the law and ... refused to agree to the reforms proposed by the dictator . On the news of this refusal reaching the army , arrayed 495-449 ...
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... refusal , imprison him , or allow him bail pending investigation , and finally sentence him to death or the payment of a fine . An appeal from their sentence was heard , not by the whole body of burgesses , but by the whole plebeian ...
... refusal , imprison him , or allow him bail pending investigation , and finally sentence him to death or the payment of a fine . An appeal from their sentence was heard , not by the whole body of burgesses , but by the whole plebeian ...
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... refused to save their champion . Cassius fell , and his law was buried along with him ; but its specter thenceforward incessantly haunted the eyes of the rich , and again and again it rose from the tomb against them , until , amid the ...
... refused to save their champion . Cassius fell , and his law was buried along with him ; but its specter thenceforward incessantly haunted the eyes of the rich , and again and again it rose from the tomb against them , until , amid the ...
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