Roman people
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the Roman people · Romans · populus Romanus · Populus Romanus · Roman citizens · Senate and People · Senate and people of Rome · Senatus Populusque Romanus · aerarium · citizens
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On the Nature of the Gods (Latin) · Institutes of Roman Law (English) · The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) (English) · On Mercy (Latin)
But if you reckon the clouds among the gods, the storms must certainly be reckoned, which have been consecrated in the rites of the Roman people.
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
The Roman People as a legislative and legal body, subject of Gaius's opening definitions.
populus itaque Romanus partim suo proprio, partim communi omnium hominum iure utitur.
As regards the sources of law, even the utterances of the People were for some time elicited.
The chief organ by which the Republic was represented was now no longer the People, but the Senate;
The Rights of War and Peace
The Roman political community, repeatedly invoked as the sovereign authority in Roman examples.
It was not without reason, that Cneus Manlius was accused by his Lieutenants of having made war upon the Galatians without authority from the Roman people.
But even if it had been judged expedient to declare Antony an enemy, the choice of the persons to conduct the war should have been left to the Senate and people of Rome.
the Germans had assisted the Gauls, enemies of the Roman people, therefore they had no reason to complain of the injury done to them, if the war against the Gauls, in which they had made themselves a party concerned, was just.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The Roman political community, used as a recurring example of a people exercising public (not proprietary) rights over shores and seas.
Sic litus Imperi Romani finibus inclusum, populi Romani esse Celsus existimat;
Deinde vero etiam qui Mari imperaret, nihil tamen posset ex usu communi deminuere, sicut Populus Romanus arcere neminem potuit, quo minus in litore imperi Romani cuncta faceret, quae iure gentium permittebantur.
nec forte satis animadvertunt idipsum quod Populus Romanus classes praesidio navigantium disponere potuit, et deprehensos in mari piratas punire, non ex proprio, sed ex communi iure accidisse, quod et aliae liberae gentes in mari habent.
On the Nature of the Gods
The Roman people and their ancestral religious traditions, invoked as the authoritative source of Cotta's own religious practice
But if you reckon the clouds among the gods, the storms must certainly be reckoned, which have been consecrated in the rites of the Roman people.
And since the whole religion of the Roman people is divided into rites and auspices, with a third thing joined to these, if from portents and prodigies the interpreters of the Sibyl or the soothsayers have given warning for the sake of prediction, I have judged that none of these religious observances is ever to be despised, and have so persuaded myself that Romulus by the auspices and Numa by the …
Stoic Paradoxes
The collective body of Rome, cited for its vast tributes yet inability to sustain an army from revenue alone.
Many have heard you say that no one is rich unless he can maintain an army out of his own revenues, which the Roman people, with all its vast tributes, has long now scarcely been able to do:
Consolation to Marcia
The collective body of Roman citizens who appear repeatedly as mourners, witnesses, and an audience whose reactions matter to the exempla.
Not without emotion did the Roman people look upon the empty car of Paulus.
more than the Roman people, whom she did not wish to make sad with her sadness;
To this death, which he met for the commonwealth, was added the immense longing of the citizens, of the provinces, and of all Italy, through which, while the towns and colonies poured out to do the mournful office, the funeral procession was led all the way to the city, most like a triumph.
Letters to Lucilius
The general Roman populace who witnessed and admired Tubero's austere banquet display.
On that day the Roman people beheld the furniture of many, admired that of one.
On Mercy
The collective body of Roman citizens and subject peoples whose welfare and loyalty depend on the mercy of their ruler.
never was any one man so dear to another as you are to the Roman people, their great and lasting good.
The Roman people was running a great hazard while it was uncertain in what direction that noble nature of yours would turn;
Not without reason is there among peoples and cities this agreement so to protect and love their kings, and to fling away themselves and what is theirs wherever the safety of their ruler has required it;