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After African negotiations, rumor in Rome sparks debate on whether the senate will ratify or overturn the consul’s treaty, while Memmius urges popular vengeance on treaty-makers and introduces his speech.
were delivered into the hands of the quaestor. Calpurnius then returned to Rome to preside at the election of magistrates[106], and peace was observed throughout Numidia and the Roman army. XXX. When rumor had made known the affairs transacted in Africa, and the mode in which they had been brought to pass, the conduct of the consul became a subject of discussion in every place and company at Rome. Among the people t…
Caesar proposes disarmament and mutual private status, but senate votes and insults derail compromise; Cicero tries reconciliation, while Lentulus and others use forceful rhetoric, forcing Pompey and Caesar toward war.
and being told that the senate would not give Caesar a longer time in his government, clapped his hand on the hilt of his sword, and said, "But this shall." Yet the demands which Caesar made had the fairest colors of equity imaginable. For he proposed to lay down his arms, and that Pompey should do the same, and both together should become private men, and each expect a reward of his services from the public. For …
After Hypatius and Pompeius leave the palace, the people proclaim Hypatius emperor, take him to the Forum of Constantine, crown him with a golden necklace, and debate whether to fight or remain in the palace.
suspicion, and he bade them quit the palace instantly. Thus, then, these two men betook themselves to their homes, and, as long as it was night, they remained there quietly. But on the following day at sunrise it became known to the people that both men had quit the palace where they had been staying. So the whole population ran to them, and they declared Hypatius emperor and prepared to lead him to the market-place…
Lucius Valerius Potitus and Marcus Horatius Barbatus denounce the decemvirs as new Tarquins and argue that suppressing speech forces grievances outside the senate, while Gaius Claudius urges caution and later proposes deferring decrees.
by such bribes, the young nobles not only made no opposition to oppression, but openly avowed a preference for their own selfish gratification rather than for the liberty of all. The ides of May came round. Without any magistrates being elected in place of those retiring, private persons [45]came forward as decemvirs, without any abatement either in their determination to enforce their authority, or any alteration i…
Pliny continues narrating the senate debate, naming consular speakers who defended Certus, and describing arguments that the senate should weigh merit over the defendant’s rank.
supported?" Upon which he named a certain person, who (not without several strong and suspicious rumours) was then at the head of a powerful army in the east. I replied, "'All I've foreseen, and oft in thought revolv'd;[144] and am willing, if fate shall so decree, to suffer in an honest cause, provided I can draw vengeance down upon a most infamous one." The time for the members to give their opinions was now arriv…