 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Authors, Latin - 1752 - 456 pages
...This Decree never pafled into a Law j the Senate was confounded, the Roman Knights were difobliged. Thus did one Year overthrow the two Barriers of the...the Senate, and breaking the Union of our Orders. We now have another precious Year upon our Hands, and it begins with this notable Circumftance, that... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 494 pages
...this? The Senate had passed a decree concerning corruption in elections and trials. This decree never passed into a law ; the Senate was confounded, the...authority from the Senate, and breaking the union of onr orders. . . . One Herennius, whom you, perhaps, know nothing of, is a tribune of the people ; but... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 536 pages
...this ? The Senate had passed a decree concerning corruption in elections and trials. This decree never passed into a law ; the Senate was confounded, the...the Senate, and breaking the union of our orders. . . . One Herennius, whom you, perhaps, know nothing of, is a tribune of the people ; but you may know... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 542 pages
...this ? The Senate had passed a decree concerning corruption in elections and trials. This decree never passed into a law ; the Senate was confounded, the...the Senate, and breaking the union of our orders. . . . One Herennius, whom you, perhaps, know nothing of, is a tribune of the people ; but you may know... | |
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... prostituted judgment. Now you shall hear what followed upon this. We had a consul forced upon us, and such a consul as none but philosophers like us can behold without a sigh. What a calamity was this ? The Senate had passed a decree concerning corruption... 