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Four tribunes vetoed a _rogatio_ to grant voting rights to the _municipia_ of Formiae, Fundi and Arpinum in 188 B.C. on the ground that the senate's judgment had not been taken, but Edocti populi esse, non senatus jus, suffragium quibus velit impertire, destiterunt incepto.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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A _rogatio_ against a project implies something more than opposition to a bill.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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The _votum_ is put in the form of a _rogatio_ to the people, without whose sanction it could not be put in force; are they willing to dedicate to Jupiter all the young of oxen, sheep, or pigs born in the spring five years after date, if the State shall have been preserved during those years from all its enemies?
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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As both the Consuls had perished, he caused the Senate to elect Valerius Flaccus interrex, and the latter brought before the people a rogatio, conferring the Dictatorship upon Sulla, for the purpose of restoring order to the Republic, and for as long a time as he judged to be necessary.
A Smaller History of Rome William Smith 1853
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Livy; "eo anno rogatio primum lata est ab Lucio Villio tribuno plebis, quot annos nati quemque magistratum peterent caperentque"
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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The proposed law (rogatio), which was carried, made the Judices eligible out of the Senators, Equites, and
Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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In hac caufa P.fo, amicitia P. Clodii dudlus, operam dat, ut ea rogatio, quam ipfe fert, et fert ex fenatus-confulto et de religione, antiquetur.
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Vcrumfic quoque aptius fit, rogatio - jDcm V. priort tollere, quod Don. innuit, lcgcndo ego pro egontk
Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex novissime recognitae cum selecta varietate lectionum et ... 1779
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