Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... tribune . In the second , those rights which the burgesses had formerly possessed , not as an assembly of citizens in curies , but as a levy of armed burgesses , would now be shared by the whole army of centuries . These rights ...
... tribune . In the second , those rights which the burgesses had formerly possessed , not as an assembly of citizens in curies , but as a levy of armed burgesses , would now be shared by the whole army of centuries . These rights ...
Page 41
... tribunes were of plebeian rank , and 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 ...
... tribunes were of plebeian rank , and 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 ...
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... tribunes , just as two quaestors had been attached to the consuls ; but the consul submitted to the prohi- bition of the tribune , while the tribune was unrestricted by any such prohibition from the consul . Still , although a copy ...
... tribunes , just as two quaestors had been attached to the consuls ; but the consul submitted to the prohi- bition of the tribune , while the tribune was unrestricted by any such prohibition from the consul . Still , although a copy ...
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... tribunes indicate a state of organized civil war between the two parties of the state . Among minor conflicts stands out the story of Gaius Marcius , surnamed Coriolanus , from the storming of Corioli . Romance has doubtless colored his ...
... tribunes indicate a state of organized civil war between the two parties of the state . Among minor conflicts stands out the story of Gaius Marcius , surnamed Coriolanus , from the storming of Corioli . Romance has doubtless colored his ...
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... tribunes were increased from five to ten ; in 456 B.C. , the Aventine , which had hitherto been sacred ground and uninhab- ited , was distributed among the poorer burgesses , for them to build on and occupy . But these concessions did ...
... tribunes were increased from five to ten ; in 456 B.C. , the Aventine , which had hitherto been sacred ground and uninhab- ited , was distributed among the poorer burgesses , for them to build on and occupy . But these concessions did ...
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