But the Optimates found more, and carried Bibulus.
By this rally of theOptimates the comitia is dissolved, the senate summoned.
For what would my friends the Optimates say--if there are such persons left?
Optimates and Populares In the Rome of this epoch the two evils of a degenerate oligarchy and a democracy still undeveloped but already cankered in the bud were interwoven in a manner pregnant with fatal results.
The Optimates themselves wavered, and fell at variance with each other.
Sulla Proceeds to Latium to Oppose the Younger Marius His Victory at Sacriportus Democratic Massacres in Rome The army of the Optimates was divided.
The whole of the characters in this dialogue and the Lucullus are among those genuine Optimates and adherents of the senatorial party whom Cicero so loves to honour.
Honest optimates would wish to maintain the Senate's preponderance from affection to it, and from belief in its being the mainstay of the State.
For the moment the power of the optimates seemed restored.
After that date new names come into use, though we can no more fix the exact time when the termsoptimates and populares superseded previous party watchwords than we can when Tory gave place to Conservative, and Whig to Liberal.
Though Marius had given fresh umbrage to the optimates by coming from his triumph (Jan.
When a poor plebeian heard the optimates spoken of, he never imagined that it was intended to place him among them, were he as honest as the best man among the optimates.
Something might perhaps be saved if these optimatescould be aroused to some idea of their duty by the exercise of eloquence such as his own.
His power had become so great that both Pompey and the Optimates desired his destruction and he was in a position to refuse to be eliminated without a struggle.
He was bitterly opposed by Cicero and the Optimates and was defeated.
The Optimates had sided with him only because they held him less dangerous than Caesar and had he been victorious they would have sought to compass his downfall.
For the moment Pompey and the Optimates were on friendly terms, and the former made use of a grain famine in the city to secure for himself an appointment as curator of the grain supply (curator annonae) for a period of five years.
Cicero, who was indebted to Pompey for his recall, was forced to support the triumvirate, and the Optimates found their boldest leader in Cato, who had returned to Rome early in 56 B.
Though but few days elapsed before the election, after Marius announced himself as a candidate, he was chosen consul, and then he began to exult over the optimates who had so long striven to keep him down.
At this time the power of the optimates was rather decreasing, and signs of promise for the people appeared.
The optimates soon saw that the labors of Gracchus had drawn the people close to him, and they determined to weaken his influence by indirect means, rather than venture to make any immediate display of opposition.
The optimates were of course offended by the acts of the new tribune, who abridged the power of the senate, and in all ways showed an intention of working for the people.
Sulla was made dictator, an officer that had been unknown for a century and a quarter, and proceeded to show his adhesion to the optimates by attempting to blot out the popular party.
The Optimates in Rome sneered at the wretched emigrant, the runaway from the Italian army, the last of the robber-band of Carbo; the sorry taunt recoiled upon its authors.
The Optimates indeed looked forward to the arrival of the dreaded general with comparative calmness; by the rupture between Pompeius and the democracy, which they saw to be approaching, they could not lose, but could only gain.
But even those four men rose little above the average calibre of the Optimates of this age.
The strict Optimates alone, with Quintus Catulus at their head, showed at least their colours and spoke against the proposition.
Caesar's grand victories, the news of which was now coming in, made it inopportune to press the matter farther; and just then another subject rose, on which the optimates ran off like hounds upon a fresh scent.
In killing Caesar the optimates had been as foolish as they were treacherous; for Caesar's efforts had been to reform the Constitution, not to abolish it.
What will our optimates say, if we have any optimates left?
If the optimates killed him without preparation, they knew that they would be immediately massacred.
The optimatesrallied in Africa, and there was again a chance that they might win after all.
The Detention of Caesar enables the Optimates to rally.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "optimates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
