Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page 13
... voted by curies . Although all full citizens or burgesses were on a footing of absolute equality as regarded one another , the distinction between those who were burgesses and those who were not was most sharply and rigidly defined . If ...
... voted by curies . Although all full citizens or burgesses were on a footing of absolute equality as regarded one another , the distinction between those who were burgesses and those who were not was most sharply and rigidly defined . If ...
Page 19
... voting , " who shared in the public burdens , i . e . , military service , tribute , and task - work , and were , therefore , called municipals , and those metics who were not included in the tribes , and who paid protection - money ...
... voting , " who shared in the public burdens , i . e . , military service , tribute , and task - work , and were , therefore , called municipals , and those metics who were not included in the tribes , and who paid protection - money ...
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... voting of the first centuries , gave a manifest advantage to the possessors of property , whose centuries had the privilege of giving their votes first . The prerogatives of the senate were increased by the reform of the constitution ...
... voting of the first centuries , gave a manifest advantage to the possessors of property , whose centuries had the privilege of giving their votes first . The prerogatives of the senate were increased by the reform of the constitution ...
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... voters in the divisions of the house , and called " foot- members " by the proud nobility , or " men who voted with their feet . " Still , this admission of plebeians into the senate - house was a most important step , and one fraught ...
... voters in the divisions of the house , and called " foot- members " by the proud nobility , or " men who voted with their feet . " Still , this admission of plebeians into the senate - house was a most important step , and one fraught ...
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... voted in the common assembly and in the senate , and they were protected by the right of appeal . The elevation of the old burgess - body , or patriciate , into an exclusive aristocracy was an- other result of the revolution . The very ...
... voted in the common assembly and in the senate , and they were protected by the right of appeal . The elevation of the old burgess - body , or patriciate , into an exclusive aristocracy was an- other result of the revolution . The very ...
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