An Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History, Volume 2J. W. Parker and son, 1855 - Rome |
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... popular elements of the consular government had already existed under the kings . The principal importance of the change is described as consisting in the substitution of two annual magistrates for the usurped and illegal despotism of ...
... popular elements of the consular government had already existed under the kings . The principal importance of the change is described as consisting in the substitution of two annual magistrates for the usurped and illegal despotism of ...
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... popular assembly , and one of whom was regarded as the author of the liberties of the plebeians . Both Dionysius and Livy agree in representing the general course of the regal government as mild , popular , and beneficent , and in ...
... popular assembly , and one of whom was regarded as the author of the liberties of the plebeians . Both Dionysius and Livy agree in representing the general course of the regal government as mild , popular , and beneficent , and in ...
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... popular laws , which were passed by the people , and which procured him the appellation of Publicola . These were - 1 That all magistrates should be appointed by the people , and that it should be lawful to kill a person who usurped ...
... popular laws , which were passed by the people , and which procured him the appellation of Publicola . These were - 1 That all magistrates should be appointed by the people , and that it should be lawful to kill a person who usurped ...
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... popular assembly , who vote in ignorance of its real effect ; and they even leave the final choice of the dictator to the Senate , without reserving to themselves any voice in his election . The Senate desire the appointment of T ...
... popular assembly , who vote in ignorance of its real effect ; and they even leave the final choice of the dictator to the Senate , without reserving to themselves any voice in his election . The Senate desire the appointment of T ...
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... popular memory . But on what authority it was recorded by the first Roman chroniclers , we cannot now discover . The The The popular distrust of Collatinus , merely on account of his bearing the name of Tarquin , seems absurd ...
... popular memory . But on what authority it was recorded by the first Roman chroniclers , we cannot now discover . The The The popular distrust of Collatinus , merely on account of his bearing the name of Tarquin , seems absurd ...
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