Yet if such a plan were eligible, it does not appear that Cicero had ever thought of it; and certainly it was not Pompey, amongst so many senatorial heads, who could be blamed for neglecting it.
I dare not tell you all One's idleness: you would look so grave and senatorial at hearing that one rises at eleven in the morning, goes to the opera at nine at night, to supper at one, and to bed at three!
The senatorial conservatives had forced the issue and for Caesar there remained the alternative of victory or destruction.
Although the term of the senatorial governors, as before, was limited to one year, tried imperial appointees were frequently kept at their posts for a number of years in the interests of good government.
These departments of public works were put in charge of commissioners of senatorial rank, called curators, whom the princeps nominated.
The title praeses (plural praesides) which was used in the second century for the imperial governors ofsenatorial rank, came to designate the equestrian governors when these supplanted the legati in the latter half of the third century.
The conflict between the principate and the Senate resulted, as we have seen, in the exclusion of members of the senatorial order from all offices of state.
As we have seen the provinces were divided into two classes, senatorial or public and imperial or Caesarian, corresponding to the division of administrative authority between the Senate and the princeps.
The majority of these was formed by the business class, although under the name of equestrians were still included such members of the senatorial families as had not yet held office.
Individuals and village communities, desirous of escaping from the exactions to which they were subject in their municipal districts, placed themselves under the patronage of some senatorial landholder and became his tenants.
The twenty years of his senatorial life are crowded with memorials of his loyalty to truth and free dom and humanity, which will be enduring as our history.
It is only necessary to point such to the open record of his senatorial career.
If disturbances broke out in a senatorial province and military rule was necessary to restore order, it would be transferred to the Emperor as the head of the army, and the Senate would receive an imperatorial province in exchange.
What a canonist was to Mediaeval Europe, a pontifex was to senatorial Rome.
The police system, with which senatorial narrowness environed the stage as it did all corporations or voluntary societies, rigidly repressed and made penal anything like liberty of speech.
Equites; and until the time of Sulla, who once more reinstated the senatorial class (81 B.
On his return he was constant in his senatorial duties [42] and we find him joined with Pliny in the accusation of Marius Priscus, which was successful but unavailing.
Hortensius was consul the following year, and afterwards we find him appearing as advocate on the senatorial side against the self-styled champions of the people, whose cause at that time Cicero espoused (e.
Thus the senatorial oratory of Rome united the characteristics of that of both our chambers.
Outspoken attacks in public on the leading statesmen did not accord with the senatorial idea of government.
Cicero, with the partiality of a senatorial advocate, gives him very high praise.
Another speaker of this epoch is CARRO, son of the Carbo already mentioned, an adherent of the senatorial party, and opponent of the celebrated Livius Drusus.
That in spite of their fierce and turbulent audience the great Roman orators attained to such impressive grandeur, is a testimony to the greatness of the senatorialsystem which reared them.
To the voters of the Senatorial district composed of the counties of Rockbridge and Augusta.
There never was a broader contrast presented in the same person than that between Howe Peyton, the lawyer, the public prosecutor, or even the Senatorial candidate amongst the people, and the same individual in his own home.
In Van Buren's senatorial speeches there is nothing to justify the charge of 'non-committalism' so much made against him.
Robert Campbell of Steuben was then nominated for lieutenant-governor by acclamation and Seward's senatorialcourse unqualifiedly indorsed.
But Schuyler was now a sick man, and in January, 1798, he resigned the senatorial toga to others, upon whose shoulders it rested briefly, and possibly with less ease and grace.
Clinton, on the other hand, following the course pursued by Philip Schuyler, boldly and persistently claimed a concurrent right on the part of the senatorial members.
A comparison of the vote with the senatorial returns of 1803 showed that for every Republican voting for Burr, a Federalist, influenced by Hamilton, voted for Lewis.
When the Senatorial party had landed, Steve had been one of the committee of entertainment.
The reply of the Senate was accompanied by a vote of a ship of the line, to be paid for out of the Senatorial salaries.
These conquests, gained by decrees and senatorial decisions, had at least the advantage of being effected without bloodshed.
But the moment the Senatorial decisions of the 2d and 4th of August were published it was evident to the dullest perceptions that the power of the First Consul wanted nothing but a name.
It did not relate to Mr. Crewe, but to the subject under discussion which he had interrupted; namely, the Republican candidates for the twenty senatorial districts of the State.
The state shall be divided into twelve senatorial districts; and each district shall be entitled to one senator, who shall be annually chosen by the electors in his district.
He did not disdain to make money in the usualsenatorial way, but he was too cold and too rich to incur special risks, or draw down on himself conspicuous disgrace, on that account.
In the preceding chapter we have described the movements in Italy and Spain connected with the proceedings of the democracy, and their subjugation by the senatorial government.
As they were then composed, while the senatorial nobility was here also influential, the decisive voice lay chiefly with the middle class.
Attacks on theSenatorial Tribunals Complaints also, only too well founded, prevailed respecting the bad administration of justice by the senatorial jurymen.
He gave money to many cities, one of them being Smyrna, that had suffered terribly by an earthquake; he also assigned the duty of building up this place to an ex-praetor of senatorial rank.
Men and women not only of equestrian but even of senatorial rank appeared in the orchestra, the hippodrome, and even the hunting-theatre, like the veriest outcasts.
The challenge was accepted, and senatorialbroadcloth was laid aside, and brain and muscle put to the test.
This is most clearly shown by the road-constructions executed in the senatorial province of Bithynia under Nero and Vespasian by the imperial procurator (C.
Thus arose the four senatorial governorships of Asia, Bithynia and Pontus, Cyprus, Crete and Cyrene.
Both of these steps applied also to the senatorial provinces, and were to all appearance predominantly felt as a benefit.
It is possible that the sterner imperial government in the three Gauls kept back the cultivation of the vine more than the lax senatorial rule in the Narbonensis.
We may presume that this serves to explain why, although in the senatorial provinces elsewhere imperial troops were not wont to be stationed, by way of exception Italica (near Seville) was provided with a division of the legion of Leon.
Asia, it is true, was a senatorial province, and we may here bear in mind that with the government of the senate all initiative fell into abeyance.
But even in the case of the roads constructed in the senatorial provinces of Asia and Cyprus the senate is never named, and the same may be assumed for them.
These provinces were administered, according to circumstances, by a praeses of senatorial rank, a legatus pro praetore, or a vir clarissimus consularis.
The province of Africa was the only senatorial province whose governor had originally been invested with military powers.
After a great inquiry held in 1892 by a senatorialcommittee a reaction was produced in France against this excessive assimilation.
But let us particularize the special lesson of his senatorial career.
The tribunes of the senatorial party interposed their veto; when swords were drawn against them even on the rostra, Octavius employed force against force.
After subduing the remnants of the senatorial party in Africa, Caesar returned home to crown his exploits by a series of splendid triumphs and to enjoy less than two years of untrammeled power.
The supreme power in the state more and more tended to fall into the hands of a narrow oligarchy--the senatorial nobility.
When Gaius was no longer protected by the sanctity of the tribune's office, [21] he fell an easy victim to senatorial hatred.
But Octavian easily made himself a power, winning the populace by paying Caesar's legacies to them and conciliating the senatorial party by siding with it against Antony.
At present, Mr Bright's senatorial exertions appear to be directed towards the abolition of the Game laws.
For it is clear that if there is to be a Second Chamber, the right place for such a Senatorial Person is in that Second Chamber, since only thus is it possible to avoid making one chamber a mere copy of the other.
In the push and jostle of entry to the First House--where special and local interests are represented--such a Senatorial Person is most likely to be thrust aside, even if he or she be inclined to mingle in the fray.
What may be called the Senatorial Person is a recognised factor in the history of all nations.
In other countries the Second Chamber is created by nomination--with at least the ostensible wish that only Senatorial Persons will be appointed.
Some of them he allowed to wear the senatorial costume occasionally even before they had held any office through which we enter the senate, on the strength of their hopes to secure admission to that body.
The fact that he had seen Gaius perish as he did and now learned that some other candidates, presumably superior to himself, had been proposed for emperor by the senatorial body made him a little timid.
And she bestowed upon a certain Numerius Atticus, a senatorial exprætor, twenty-five myriads because he swore that he had seen Augustus ascending into heaven after the manner described in the cases of Proclus and of Romulus.
This was the value which he at first set upon the senatorial rank: later he raised it to twenty-five myriads.
Some they list in the equestrian and senatorial class and others they erase from the roll, as pleases them.
Upon Rufrius Pollio the prefect he bestowed an image and a seat in the senatorial body as often as he would enter that assembly with him.
These should be tried by the senatorial magistrates themselves, in order that the latter may have authority both to honor and to chastise their dependents and so be able to count on their unhesitating support.
Pirates overran many quarters, so that Sardinia had no senatorial governor for some years, but was in charge of soldiers with knights for commanders.
As a consequence, after apprising those senators with whom he was most intimate of his designs, he entered the senatorial body in his seventh consulship and read the following document.
Next he ordained that the rulers ofsenatorial provinces should be annual magistrates, elected by lot, unless any one had the special privilege accorded to a large number of children or marriage.
When he had done this he next investigated thesenatorial body.
As a body the equites exerted considerable political influence, holding in fact the balance of power between the senatorial and the democratic parties.
Some authorities think that the badge of the senatorial tunic was a single broad stripe running down the middle of the garment in front and behind, but unfortunately no picture has come down to us that absolutely decides the question.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "senatorial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bicameral; lawmaking; legislative; parliamentary; unicameral
