Roman citizens
group · 3 works · 14 mentions · 18 anchored passages
cives Romani · citizens of Rome · Civitas Romana · Roman citizen · ciues Romani · cives · civis Romanus · civitas Romana · our citizens · our countrymen
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Citizens of Rome, to whom the formula 'dari spondes' is exclusively available.
Sed haec quidem uerborum obligatio dari spondes?
’ ‘I will solemnly promise,’ is only valid between Roman citizens;
Item ciuitas Romana peregrino fingitur, si eo nomine agat aut cum eo agatur, quo nomine nostris legibus actio constituta est, si modo iustum sit eam actionem etiam ad peregrinum extendi:
Academica
The Roman public, divided into learned and unlearned readers, whose reception of Latin philosophical writing is debated by Varro and Cicero.
that either the learned will prefer to read Greek, or that those who do not know Greek will not care for these works either.
and these the learned, as I said, will prefer to seek from the Greeks, while the unlearned will not accept them even from us, so that all the labour is undertaken in vain.
For when I saw that philosophy had been set forth with the greatest care in Greek letters, I judged that any of our countrymen who were gripped by a love of it would, if they were schooled in Greek learning, read the Greek works rather than ours, whereas, if they shrank from the arts and disciplines of the Greeks, they would not care even for these things, which cannot be understood without Greek education.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Citizens of Rome, whose marriages were invalid both within near kin and outside the citizen body lacking connubium.
Any marriage of a Roman citizen within a circle not widely different from that traced by our own Table of Prohibited Degrees was invalid;