"Optimates" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the service of the Roman republic at a time when Rome was internally divided by the struggle of the opposite factions of the optimates, or the aristocracy, and the populares, or the democratical party. The optimates supported the power of the senate, and of the nobility who prevailed in the senate; while the populares were exerting themselves to bring all public questions of importance before the popular assembly for decision, and resisted the influence of illustrious and powerful families, ...
— De Bello Catilinario et Jugurthino • Caius Sallustii Crispi (Sallustius) |
