Roman people

The chief organ by which the Republic was represented was now no longer the People, but the Senate;

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.

Such was the power of the Amimonians among the Cnidians, and of the Dictators in the early periods of the Roman history, when there was no appeal to the people, from whence Livy says, the will of the Dictator was observed as a law.

—“Senators of Rome, we consign to your dominion the people of Campania, and the city of Capua, our lands, our temples, and all things both divine and human,” and if another people as Appian relates, offered to submit to the Romans, and were refused, what is there to prevent any nation from submitting in the same manner to one powerful sovereign?

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.

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.

Sic litus Imperi Romani finibus inclusum, populi Romani esse Celsus existimat;

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 …

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.

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:

more than the Roman people, whom she did not wish to make sad with her sadness;

Not without emotion did the Roman people look upon the empty car of Paulus.

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.

On that day the Roman people beheld the furniture of many, admired that of one.

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;

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;