senatus consultum
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Within three days a senatus consultum was ready recommending the desired change to another plebiscite.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
Moreover, nothing in Roman history indicates that to the validity of a senatus consultum it was necessary to count the vacant domains of the sacred territory.
From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Brownson, Orestes Augustus
A part of the territory of Liguria and Cisalpine Gaul was confiscated and a senatus consultum ordered a distribution of this land to the commons.
From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Stephenson, Andrew
In legislative measures, a senatus consultum was brought before the people by the consul, or the senator who originated the measure, after it had previously been exhibited in public for seventeen days.
From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John
In the third century before our era, a Roman could say audibo or audiam, contemplor or contemplo, senatus consultum or senati consultum.
From The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Abbott, Frank Frost
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