Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... tribes at feud with one another . It is impossible to define the privileges of Alba , as presiding can- ton . Probably it was a purely honorary position , and had no polit- ical signification , certainly none as denoting any sort of ...
... tribes at feud with one another . It is impossible to define the privileges of Alba , as presiding can- ton . Probably it was a purely honorary position , and had no polit- ical signification , certainly none as denoting any sort of ...
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... tribe of the whole community . Originally each household had its own portion of land , but when households combined into a gens , each clan had its lands , and this system naturally extended to curies and communities , whether single or ...
... tribe of the whole community . Originally each household had its own portion of land , but when households combined into a gens , each clan had its lands , and this system naturally extended to curies and communities , whether single or ...
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... tribe was added to the original three , the new burgesses being distributed among the existing tribes and curies . Henceforth each of the three tribes contained two divisions or ranks , and these ranks were de- noted by the names ...
... tribe was added to the original three , the new burgesses being distributed among the existing tribes and curies . Henceforth each of the three tribes contained two divisions or ranks , and these ranks were de- noted by the names ...
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... tribes , and who paid protection - money , and were non - freeholders . Analogy from Greek states inclines to the view that this reform was modeled on Greek lines , and produced by Greek influence . The adoption of the armor and ...
... tribes , and who paid protection - money , and were non - freeholders . Analogy from Greek states inclines to the view that this reform was modeled on Greek lines , and produced by Greek influence . The adoption of the armor and ...
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... tribes . Hitherto the plebeians had voted by curies , and numbers alone had determined their de- cision . The clients of patrician families voted in these assemblies , and thus enabled the nobility to exercise no small influence on the ...
... tribes . Hitherto the plebeians had voted by curies , and numbers alone had determined their de- cision . The clients of patrician families voted in these assemblies , and thus enabled the nobility to exercise no small influence on the ...
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