A School Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Abridged from the Larger DictionaryHarper, 1846 - 373 pages |
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... consul who had not the fasces , which custom , after being long disused , was restored by Julius Cæsar in his first consulship . Accensi also attended on the governors of provinces . 2. The accensi were also a class of soldiers in the ...
... consul who had not the fasces , which custom , after being long disused , was restored by Julius Cæsar in his first consulship . Accensi also attended on the governors of provinces . 2. The accensi were also a class of soldiers in the ...
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... consuls had hitherto arbitrarily suppressed or altered . They were also the Other functions keepers of the plebiscita . were gradually entrusted to them , and it is not always easy to distinguish their duties from some of those which ...
... consuls had hitherto arbitrarily suppressed or altered . They were also the Other functions keepers of the plebiscita . were gradually entrusted to them , and it is not always easy to distinguish their duties from some of those which ...
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... consuls , quaestors , and praetors , and sometimes by an extraordinary magistrate , as the praefectus annonae . The aediles had to see that the public lands were not improperly used , and that the pas- ture grounds of the state were not ...
... consuls , quaestors , and praetors , and sometimes by an extraordinary magistrate , as the praefectus annonae . The aediles had to see that the public lands were not improperly used , and that the pas- ture grounds of the state were not ...
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... consul before he accepted the office of aedile , and his munificent expen- diture in this nominal office was the close of the splendour of the aedileship . Augustus appointed the curule aediles specially to the office of putting out ...
... consul before he accepted the office of aedile , and his munificent expen- diture in this nominal office was the close of the splendour of the aedileship . Augustus appointed the curule aediles specially to the office of putting out ...
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... consuls . We also find traces of an aera from the banishment of the kings ; and of another from the taking of the city by the Gauls . The date of the foundation of Rome is given differently by different authors . That which is most ...
... consuls . We also find traces of an aera from the banishment of the kings ; and of another from the taking of the city by the Gauls . The date of the foundation of Rome is given differently by different authors . That which is most ...
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