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... senate had been humbled and disarmed , such an assembly , consisting of five or six hundred persons , was found a much more tractable and useful instrument of dominion . It was on the dignity of the senate that Augustus and his suc ...
... senate had been humbled and disarmed , such an assembly , consisting of five or six hundred persons , was found a much more tractable and useful instrument of dominion . It was on the dignity of the senate that Augustus and his suc ...
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... senate whom the senate had flattered when alive with the most abject emperors servility , betrayed a just but ungenerous spirit of revenge . The legality of these decrees was , however , supported by the prin- ciples of the Imperial ...
... senate whom the senate had flattered when alive with the most abject emperors servility , betrayed a just but ungenerous spirit of revenge . The legality of these decrees was , however , supported by the prin- ciples of the Imperial ...
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... senate wards completed by the family of Constantine , and , as the image of the old constitution was religiously preserved in the senate , he resolved to deprive that order of its small remains of power and consideration . We may ...
... senate wards completed by the family of Constantine , and , as the image of the old constitution was religiously preserved in the senate , he resolved to deprive that order of its small remains of power and consideration . We may ...
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A D | xxxvii |
Prefatory Note | xxxix |
Preface to the Fourth Volume of the Quarto Edition | xlv |
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