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This pseudodemocratic base of totali - tarian systems should however not be mistaken for reality, as is done by both conservative critics who explain totalitarianism simply as the consequence of democracy, and by apologists of Communist or Fascist systems who praise the “democratic” quality of plebi - scites and acclamations.
TOTALITARIANISM KARL DIETRICH BRACHER 1968
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Metellus interea Romam profectus contra spem [479] suam laetissimis animis excipitur, plebi patribusque, postquam invidia decesserat, juxta carus.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Neque illi senatus, quamquam adversus erat, de ullo negotio abnuere audebat; ceterum supplementum etiam laetus decreverat, quia neque plebi militia volenti [441] putabatur et Marius aut belli usum aut studia vulgi amissurus.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Ad dandam scientiam salutis plebi ejus: in remissionem peccatorum eorum:
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* Coetus autem sacros sic peragendos esse censemus, ut ante omnia verbum Dei in publicum plebi quottidie propronatur, Scripturae abdita per idoneos ministros quottidie eruantur edisseranturque: sacra Eucharistia celebranda piorum subinde fides exerceatur, precationi pro omnibus omnium necessitatibus assidue instetur:
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Coetus autem sacros sic peragendos esse censemus, ut ante omnia verbum Dei in publicum plebi quottidie propronatur, Scripturae abdita per idoneos ministros quottidie eruantur edisseranturque: sacra Eucharistia celebranda piorum subinde fides exerceatur, precationi pro omnibus omnium necessitatibus assidue instetur.
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_Ep_. lx Leges tulit, inter quas frumentariam, ut senis et triente frumentum plebi daretur.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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Hoc, ante quam tribunus plebi C. Gracchus factus esset, et se audisse scribit C.elius et dixisse eum multis.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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Cum Carbo tribunus plebis rogationem tulisset, ut eundem tribunum plebi, quoties vellet, creare liceret, rogationem ejus
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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Yet you, with great unconcern, desire me to quit my family, and all my amusements and enjoyments, that I may come to town to endure complete wretchedness, and have a bad dinner and an indigestion everyday, _ut plebi placeam et declamatio fiam_.
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. John Knox Laughton 1872
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