| Title: | Fathers, conscript |
| Original Title: | Pères conscripts |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 12 (1765), p. 338 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Emily Jane Cohen [Stanford University] |
| Subject terms: |
Roman history
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| Citation (MLA): | "Fathers, conscript." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Emily Jane Cohen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2002. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.335>. Trans. of "Pères conscripts," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 12. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Fathers, conscript." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Emily Jane Cohen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.335 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Pères conscripts," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 12:338 (Paris, 1765). |
Fathers, conscript. In Latin, patres conscripti was the name given to Roman senators according to their age or because of the care they took of their fellow citizens. Those who constituted the ancient council of the republic, says Sallust, had bodies weakened by age, but their minds were fortified by wisdom and experience.
This was not the case at the time the historian was writing. Under the kings, the name conscript fathers had only applied to two hundred senators, but, according to Dion, by the time of Julius Caesar, their number had grown to nine hundred.