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... Citizen- ship ; 23. Lex Plautia ; 24. The Cornelian Judic- iary Laws ; 25. The Change in Government from a Republic to an Empire ; 26. Elections Taken from the People and Given to the Senate ; 27. Vespasian's Law Concerning the Empire ...
... Citizen- ship ; 23. Lex Plautia ; 24. The Cornelian Judic- iary Laws ; 25. The Change in Government from a Republic to an Empire ; 26. Elections Taken from the People and Given to the Senate ; 27. Vespasian's Law Concerning the Empire ...
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... citizens were committed . Some men were proscribed , others exiled , property was confiscated , and some even fiendishly tortured . Nothing disgraceful was refrained from until about fifty years after the death of Gracchus , Cornelius ...
... citizens were committed . Some men were proscribed , others exiled , property was confiscated , and some even fiendishly tortured . Nothing disgraceful was refrained from until about fifty years after the death of Gracchus , Cornelius ...
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... citizen and return home without being molested , so great awe of his rule still remained in the memories of the onlookers , or so great was their amazement at his laying it aside . They may have been ashamed to ask him for an accounting ...
... citizen and return home without being molested , so great awe of his rule still remained in the memories of the onlookers , or so great was their amazement at his laying it aside . They may have been ashamed to ask him for an accounting ...
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... citizen who appealed from his authority to the people . And the pontifical books attest that the right of appeal had existed ... citizens of the name of Portius , as you are aware , added nothing new to this edict but a penal sanction ...
... citizen who appealed from his authority to the people . And the pontifical books attest that the right of appeal had existed ... citizens of the name of Portius , as you are aware , added nothing new to this edict but a penal sanction ...
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... citizens had thrown the state into disorder , the people first retired to Mount Sacer , and next occu- pied Mount Aventine . And even the rigid discipline of Lycurgus could not maintain those restraints in the case of the Greeks . For ...
... citizens had thrown the state into disorder , the people first retired to Mount Sacer , and next occu- pied Mount Aventine . And even the rigid discipline of Lycurgus could not maintain those restraints in the case of the Greeks . For ...
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Page 128 - the materials. Of course, if the person who builds is in possession of the soil, and the owner of the soil claims the building, but refuses to pay the price of the materials and the wages of the workmen, the owner may be repelled by an exception of dolus mains, provided the builder was
Page 376 - if he could get up to the highest place in the city, he would lift up his voice and make this proclamation thence: "What mean you, fellow-citizens, that you thus turn every stone to scrape wealth together, and take so little care of your children, to whom, one day, you must relinquish it all?"—to which
Page 409 - and that his friends had no need to conjecture what he wished or did not wish, but it was quite plain. 15. From Maximus I learned self-government, and not to be led aside by anything; and cheerfulness in all circumstances, as well as in illness; and a just
Page 122 - By the law of nature these things are common to mankind— the air, running water, the sea, and consequently the shores of the sea. No one, therefore, is forbidden to approach the seashore, provided that he respects habitations, monuments, and buildings, which are not, like the sea, subject only to the law of nations.
Page 417 - be done with reference to an end; and the end of rational animals is to follow the reason and the law of the most ancient city and polity. 17. Of human life the time is a point, and the substance is
Page 409 - government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed ; I learned from him also consistency and undeviating steadiness in my regard for philosophy; and a disposition to do good, and to give to others readily, and to cherish good hopes, and to believe that I am loved by my friends; and in him I observed no concealment,
Page 411 - hours: he was not fond of building houses, nor curious about what he ate, nor about the texture and colour of his clothes, nor about the beauty of his slaves. His dress came from Lorium, his villa on the coast, and from Lanuvium generally. We know how he behaved
Page 416 - still remember' that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the same. For the present is the same to all, though
Page 410 - affection, and when he had them not, he did not want them. No one could ever say of him that he was either a sophist or a [home-bred] flippant slave or a pedant; but everyone acknowledged him to be a man ripe, perfect, above flattery, able to manage his own and other men's affairs. Besides this he
Page 101 - 1. Freedom, from which men are said to be free, is the natural power of doing what we each please, unless prevented by force or by law. 2. Slavery is an institution of the law of nations, by which one man is made the property of another, contrary to natural right.