1
He wished not to select victims, but to massacre all the leading optimates.
2
For the moment the power of the optimates seemed restored.
3
Who are these optimates, that insist that I must leave Italy, while they remain?
4
If the optimates killed him without preparation, they knew that they would be immediately massacred.
5
My husband told me that the Carpazzi were of the genuine optimates of the Roman Duchy.
6
Those who favored the interests of the Senate were called optimates, and sometimes procĕres or principes.
7
Thirdly, the Senate, thinned by the Social War and the Varian law, was recruited by 300 optimates.
8
In this assembly, the king, the prelates, the dukes, the ealdormen, and the optimates passed judgment upon all great offenders.
9
The question of the kingship was over; but a vague alarm had been created, which answered the purpose of the optimates.
10
Both Crassus and Pompey retired from the consulship amid the plaudits of the people and with the continued friendship of the optimates.
11
The Optimates themselves wavered, and fell at variance with each other.
12
For what would my friends the Optimates say-ifthere are such persons left?
13
The biggest of these societies founded as long ago as 1855 is the society of the Re-Theurgistes-Optimates.
14
But even those four men rose little above the average calibre of the Optimates of this age.
15
The army of the Optimates was divided.
16
Out in the Forum bands of young "Optimates" were shouting for Pompeius, and cursing Cæsar and his followers.