"Conferment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to come from individual cities to the Roman people. But it is probable that the bill in some way asserted the willingness of the people to confer the franchise, and that, if any other steps were involved in the method of conferment, they were little more than formal. The fact that the provocatio was contemplated as a substitute for citizenship is at once a proof that the old spirit of state life, which viewed absorption as extermination, ...
— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge |
