A keen partisan of the commonalty, he attacked with vehemence some of the chiefs of the great senatorian party.
But at the time in which the words-- Nec Memmi clara propago Talibus in rebus communi deesse saluti-- were written, even Cicero regarded him as one of the bulwarks of the senatorian cause against Clodius and his influential supporters.
At no other period does the tribunician opposition to the senatorian direction of affairs and to the authority of the magistrate appear weaker or more intermittent.
He condemned some men of the first rank in the senatorian and equestrian orders, upon a very slight suspicion, and without trial.
Some of these games were celebrated with peculiar circumstances; the Circus being overspread with vermilion and chrysolite; and none drove in the chariot races who were not of the senatorian order.
When he assumed the manly toga, his senatorian tunic becoming loose in the seam on each side, fell at his feet.
He condemned several men of the senatorian and equestrian orders, upon the Scantinian law [813].
After assuming the manly habit, he had a long time a distaste for the senatorian toga, though his brother had obtained it; nor could he be persuaded by any one but his mother to sue for that badge of honour.
From those who declined the senatorian dignity, he took away the equestrian.
He purified the senatorian and equestrian orders, which had been much reduced by the havoc made amongst them at several times, and was fallen into disrepute by neglect.
He had entertained a design of removing to Antium, and afterwards to Alexandria; having first cut off the flower of the equestrian and senatorian orders.
But a war being now unavoidable, and the generals and troops sent forward by Vitellius, advancing, he had a proof of the attachment and fidelity of the pretorian guards, which had nearly proved fatal to the senatorian order.
In his march he was waited upon by deputies from the senatorian order, entreating him to hasten his return.
In the games which he instituted for the eternal duration of the empire, and therefore ordered to be called Maximi, many of the senatorian and equestrian order, of both sexes, performed.
Schweighauser) more accurately computes forty victims of the senatorian rank, and 1600 of the equestrian census or order.
In the games which he instituted for the eternal duration of the empire, and therefore ordered to be called Maximi, many of the senatorian and equestrian order, of both sexes, performed.
As Publicius Certus had seized upon Helvidius and led him to prison, Tacitus imputes the crime to the whole senatorian order.
It is not for the loss of liberty and of the senatorian rule that he chafes, but for the loss of the old national manliness and self-respect.
As a man he shows many of the strong qualities of the old Roman plebeian--the aggressive boldness, the intolerance of superiority and privilege, which animated the tribunes in their opposition to the senatorian rule.
THIS saint was a Cilician, of a senatorian family in Anazarbus, and a minister of the gospel.
But within the senatorian jurisdiction, these governors, with the title of Proconsuls, were to have no military power whatsoever; and the appointments were good only for a single year.
But besides the ideals of popular freedom and senatorian dignity which were realised in the Republic, the Roman mind was impressed by another political ideal, the 'Majesty of the State.
Is it on account of theSenatorian and anti-Caesarean sympathies of the older poets that the poets of the new era thus separate themselves abruptly from those of the previous epoch?
By birth, position, and all their associations and sympathies, they belonged to the Senatorian party.
The tropic is a schedule consisting of two parts; the first by which the senatorian magistrates are elected; and the second, by which the senatorian councils are perpetuated.
The knights, having taken their places in the Senate, make the third region of the same, and the house proceeds to the senatorian elections.
The council for the rest shall elect weekly provosts, having any two of them also right to propose after the manner of the senatorian councils of Oceana.
It may well be assumed that Lucretius was a member of the Roman aristocracy, belonging either to a senatorian or to one of the great equestrian families.
The inference that Lucretius belonged to this class is confirmed by the tone in which he addresses Gaius Memmius, a man of an eminent senatorian family, to whom the poem is dedicated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "senatorian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
