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| | Amazon.com: The Roman Revolution: Books: Ronald Syme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | sovran people, young nobiles, viri triumphales, earliest consuls, higher legality, principes viri, militia equestris, novi homines, consular standing, military provinces, third consulate, triumviral period, personal adherents, municipal family, concordia ordinum, plebeian nobility, tribunicia potestas, public provinces, magnitudo animi, novus homo, second consulate, proconsular imperium, governing oligarchy, equestrian officer, supreme magistracy |
 | | He writes of Caesar: "The rule of the nobiles, he [Caesar] could see, was an anachronism in a world-empire; and so was the power of the Roam plebs when all Italy enjoyed the franchise. |
 | | He writes: "The nobiles by their ambition and their feuds, had not merely destroyed their spurious republic: they had ruined the Roman People. |
| www.amazon.com /Roman-Revolution-Ronald-Syme/dp/0192803204 (3569 words) |
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