The grain-largesses to the people of Rome were indeed still continued in a modified form, but the stores thus dispensed seemed to have been brought almost entirely from Italy.
They were not only free from tax and tribute of every kind, but largesses of money were made whenever the king entered Pasargadae (V.
On this occasion he distributed considerable largessesamong the Meccans.
The largesses bestowed by the aediles were the following: the Roman games were sumptuously exhibited, considering the present state of their resources; they were repeated during one day, and a gallon of oil was given to each street.
This a good deal soured the captain's temper, as did all the other daily instances of Mr Allworthy's generosity; for he looked on all such largesses to be diminutions of his own wealth.
You are fed by the largesses of the Emperor, you have your two loaves a day and your pork, and you need not and so do not work.
Then in addition to all this, there are the largesses of the Emperor, not only to his armies, but to all the citizens of Rome; which are now so much a matter of expectation, that rebellions I believe would ensue were they not bestowed.
Would that all the largesses of former kings had been as well bestowed!
How those largesseshad been bestowed none knew better than some of the austere patriots who harangued so loudly against the avidity of Montague.
He lent to all his friends without interest, and sometimes scattered his largesses with profusion.
Sylla fomented these disorders by loading his troops with largesses and profusions without bounds, in order to corrupt and draw to him the soldiers of the opposite parties.
How many men are embarrassed by their vast possessions, and cannot support the odium attached to the largesses of Sylla!
We therefore confer upon you the dignity of Count of the Sacred Largessesfrom this sixth Indiction (Sept.
The Count of Sacred Largesses tells us that you were long ago commissioned to get in the Bina and Terna [and have not done so].
The Conscript Fathers are exhorted to endorse the favourable judgment of the King, by welcoming the new Count of Sacred Largesses into their body.
Count of Sacred Largesses and distributed by the Pope to the poor; and he shall lose his suit in addition, notwithstanding any decree which he may have gained in the secular court.
He had the care of the Annona or corn-largesses to the people, the command of the City-watch, and the duty of keeping the aqueducts in proper repair.
My fidelity is compelled to remark, even at the risk of your just indignation, that half of them have been unloaded again for your munificent largesses of the last two days.
Then came enormous largesses of corn, proving, more satisfactorily to the mob than to the shipowners, that Egyptian wheat was better employed at home than abroad.
The games andlargesses which crowned the pomp of this memorable festival may easily be supposed; but there is one circumstance of a more singular and permanent nature, which ought not entirely to be overlooked.
The extraordinary title of count of the sacredlargesses was bestowed on the treasurer-general of the revenue, with the intention perhaps of inculcating, that every payment flowed from the voluntary bounty of the monarch.
Don Juan Chacon was the son of Gonsalvo, who had the care of Don Alfonso and the queen during her minority, when he was induced by the liberallargesses of John II.
So far all went on prosperously; and the eloquence and largesses of the archbishop, which latter he lavished so freely as to encumber his revenues for several years to come, brought crowds of proselytes to the Christian fold.
If Gracchus's corn law was abolished or modified immediately after his fall, the corn largesses may now have been restored or extended.
The lesson is striking and wholesome, and ought not to be forgotten, that it was when the land was in the very midst of these largesses that the universal bankruptcy set in.
To the self-consecrated guardians of the Constitution this was as corrupt as offers of largesses to plebeians at Rome.
He had conciliated the ignorant multitude by presents, by monuments, by largesses of food, and by banquets, he had bound his own party to him by rewards, his adversaries by the appearances of clemency.
The constant influx of persons brought by the corn-largesses to Rome was, if not wholly stopped,(48) at least very materially restricted by the conversion of these largesses into a provision for the poor limited to a fixed number.
It is remarkable that in this very year (691) the full re-establishment of the Sempronian corn-largesses took place, and was effected by the senate on the proposal of Cato.
Alterations on the Constitution By Gaius Gracchus) allowed every burgess domiciled in Rome to share in the largesses of grain, is certain.
The Budget of Expenditure In the expenditure a diminution was in the first place obtained by the considerable restriction of the largesses of grain.
This infamous principle was set aside by Caesar; but it could not be overlooked that a multitude of wholly destitute burgesses had been protected solely by these largesses of food from starvation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "largesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
