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Meanings of optimate (optimates) in English

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Usage of optimates in English
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He wished not to select victims, but to massacre all the leading optimates.
The Gracchi Marius and Sulla / Epochs of Ancient History
2
For the moment the power of the optimates seemed restored.
The Gracchi Marius and Sulla / Epochs of Ancient History
3
Who are these optimates, that insist that I must leave Italy, while they remain?
Caesar: A Sketch
4
If the optimates killed him without preparation, they knew that they would be immediately massacred.
Caesar: A Sketch
5
My husband told me that the Carpazzi were of the genuine optimates of the Roman Duchy.
The Title Market
6
Those who favored the interests of the Senate were called optimates, and sometimes procĕres or principes.
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology / For Classical Schools...
7
Thirdly, the Senate, thinned by the Social War and the Varian law, was recruited by 300 optimates.
The Gracchi Marius and Sulla / Epochs of Ancient History
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In this assembly, the king, the prelates, the dukes, the ealdormen, and the optimates passed judgment upon all great offenders.
An Essay on the Trial By Jury
9
The question of the kingship was over; but a vague alarm had been created, which answered the purpose of the optimates.
Caesar: A Sketch
10
Both Crassus and Pompey retired from the consulship amid the plaudits of the people and with the continued friendship of the optimates.
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Repu...
11
The Optimates themselves wavered, and fell at variance with each other.
The History of Rome, Book IV / The Revolution
12
For what would my friends the Optimates say-ifthere are such persons left?
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 / The Whole Extant Correspodence...
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The biggest of these societies founded as long ago as 1855 is the society of the Re-Theurgistes-Optimates.
Là-bas
14
But even those four men rose little above the average calibre of the Optimates of this age.
The History of Rome, Book V / The Establishment of the Military ...
15
The army of the Optimates was divided.
The History of Rome, Book IV / The Revolution
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Out in the Forum bands of young "Optimates" were shouting for Pompeius, and cursing Cæsar and his followers.
A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
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