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Usage examples of senators.

Rank dictated the positions of some, like those holding magistracies, priesthoods, augurships, but the bulk of the senators were at liberty to distribute themselves among cronies and settle to partake of viands the bottomless purse of Young Marius had provided.

I could have used my tame senators to block the curule elections until I made my move.

In almost every respect his procession was a standard one-first the magistrates and senators, then musicians and dancers, the carts displaying spoils and the floats depicting various incidents from the campaign, the priests and the white male sacrificial victims, the captives and hostages, and then the general in his chariot, followed by his army.

For despite the protestations of a group of senators who insisted upon calling themselves neutral, everyone in Rome from highest to lowest knew very well that the lines were drawn.

Those Roman knights and senators whose estates were affected by the fortifications could do nothing save glumly wait for the siege to be over-and curse Young Marius.

He had not, however, changed out of his armor, and that fact told the senators that he was by no means relinquishing his control of the proceedings.

On this day the restored exiles-men like Appius Claudius Pulcher, Metellus Pius, Varro Lucullus and Marcus Crassus-marched not as senators of Rome, but as restored exiles, though Sulla considerately spared them the indignity of having to don the Cap of Liberty, normally the headgear of freedmen.

He, of course, had been walking with the other senators at the very front of the parade.

April, Sulla published a list of two hundred new senators, promising that there would be more in the months to come.

Senate in the future, which will bring total membership up to about four hundred, so many senators have we lost over the past decade.

Well, for the moment I will leave your name among the senators and will not attach it to the rostra.

Every one of the three hundred senators present spent more time making sure no dog lurked than in paying attention to the ritual.

By the time that Philippus reached his peroration, the senators would have agreed to practically anything to be allowed to go home for food and sleep.

Both Philippus and Cethegus now informed the senators that Lepidus must be considered to be in revolt, that they had proof of his dealings and agreements with the refractory elements in Etruria and Umbria-and that his senior legate, the praetor Marcus Junius Brutus, was equally involved.

Now it may be that among those senators and promagistrates at this moment on duty abroad, there is a suitable man.