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Page 246 - Institutes were declared to be the legitimate system of civil jurisprudence ; they alone were admitted in the tribunals, and they alone were taught in the academies, of Rome, Constantinople, and Berytus.
Page 3 - Biblical Cyclopaedia; or, Dictionary of Eastern Antiquities, Geography, Natural History, Sacred Annals and Biography, Theology, and Biblical Literature, Illustrative of the Old and New Testaments.
Page 105 - Is qui non universum populum sed partem aliquam adesse iubet, non comitia sed concilium edicere debet. Tribuni autem neque advocant patricios neque ad eos referre ulla de re possunt. Ita ne leges quidem proprie sed plebisscita appellantur quae tribunis plebis ferentibus accepta sunt, quibus rogationibus ante patricii non tenebantur, donec Q.
Page 11 - Roman miles ; but this included the Transtiberina Regio. It does not fall within the limits of the present work to enter into any discussion with regard to the points embraced by the new walls ; but their general course will be understood by referring to the plan on which they are laid down, as well as those of Servios.
Page 247 - Omne autem ius quo utimur vel ad personas pertinet, vel ad res, vel ad actiones.
Page 371 - Intercal. in an intercalary year, and Cicero knew not when he wrote, whether an intercalation had or had not taken place. Annni ConliuioDl«. — Accordingly, when Cœsar became Dictator, the year was about two months in advance of the seasons ; the spring festivals happened in what were nominally the summer months, and those of summer in autumn. To take a single example. — Cicero, in one of his Epistles to Atticus, (X.
Page 367 - ... supposes them to have been from the first the eleventh and twelfth. According to Ovid, who supposes them to have been added by Numa, January was placed at the beginning of the year, February at the end, and the new arrangement, by which February was placed second, was introduced by the Decemvirs.
Page 75 - Adjecit deinde verbis , quo majoris cladis indicium esset, neminem, nisi equitem, atque eorum ipsorum primores, id gerere insigne.
Page 381 - Ubi his ordinibus exercitus instructus esset, hastati omnium primi pugnam inibant. Si hastati profligare hostem non possent, pede presso eos retro cedentes in intervalla ordinum principes recipiebant. Turn principum pugna erat; hastati sequebantur.
Page 387 - Rome itself, whilst the remainder were dispersed in the adjacent towns of Italy. But after fifty years of peace and servitude, Tiberius ventured on a decisive measure which riveted the fetters of his country. Under the pretence of relieving Italy from the burden of military quarters, and of introducing stricter discipline among the guards, he assembled them at Rome in a permanent camp, (Castra Praetoria,) strongly fortified, and placed on a commanding situation at the northern extremity of the Viminal.*...