What is "backbenchers"

Usage examples of "backbenchers".

One ex-praetor and five backbenchers to form a delegation charged with reasoning with the likes of Caepio?

What I own will not ensure the public careers of my sons, even as backbenchers like their father.

They are not even subordinate officers, despite the fact that I am consul and they are mostly backbenchers who will never know the feel of an ivory curule chair beneath their fat arses.

Whereas Cethegus-a patrician Cornelius remotely related to Sulla-had remained in the background, preferring to wield his power by manipulating his fellow backbenchers in the Senate.

He controls the votes of those backbenchers in the Lentulus clientele.

Sulla then heard that Cinna was actively lobbying many of the backbenchers for their support when Vergilius and another tribune of the plebs, Publius Magius, submitted a motion to the Senate to recommend to the Centuriate Assembly that Sulla be stripped of his imperium and made to answer charges of treason and murder.

The message was given to Pompey, who whooped so loudly that dozing backbenchers almost fell off their stools, then leaped to his feet.

It was going down extremely well among the backbenchers and among those on the middle tiers whose allegiance swayed from side to side like a sapling in a vortex.

Liberators met with no overt hostility, though not one of the backbenchers would go near them in case he should inadvertently touch them.