THis fourth division of the Romans hath beene occa∣sioned through the faction & siding of the Citizens. Those (according to the description ofo 1.1 Tully) were Optimates .i. the best citizens, who desired their actions might be liked, and approved by the better sort. Those Po∣pulares. .i. popular, who through a desire of vaine-glory, would not so much consider, what was most right, as what should be most pleasing vnto the populacy. So that here by this word Popular wee vnderstand not the commons, as formerly we did,p 1.2 but be he Senator, Gentleman, or infe∣riour, if he doe more desire that which shall bee applauded by the maior part, then that which shal be approved by the better part, him the Romanes called Popular .i. such a one, that preferreth the popular applause before the right.
Romanæ historiæ anthologia An English exposition of the Romane antiquities, wherein many Romane and English offices are paralleld and divers obscure phrases explained. By Thomas Godwyn Master of Arts: for the vse of Abingdon Schoole.
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CHAP. 5.
De quarta divisione Romanorum in Op∣timates,
& Populares.
Notes
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o 1.1
Cic pro Sextio.
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p 1.2
Geor. Me∣rula in orat. pro. Ligario.