Optimates

When one of the factions is extinguished, the remaining subdivideth; as the faction between Lucullus, and the rest of the nobles of the senate (which they called Optimates) held out awhile, against the faction of

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When one of the factions is extinguished, the remaining subdivideth; as the faction between Lucullus and the rest of the nobles of the senate (which they called Optimates [Aristocrats]) held out awhile against the faction of Pompey and Cæsar; but when the senate’s authority was pulled down, Cæsar and Pompey soon after brake.

LI. Of Faction 1909

I hadn't expected that those excellent 'Optimates' would begin to murder tribunes quite so soon.

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

Out in the Forum bands of young "Optimates" were shouting for Pompeius, and cursing Cæsar and his followers.

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

There was no love lost by the noble "Optimates" upon Pompeius, and Marcellus hinted this plainly when he said that all Italy must be put under arms, and with such an army at the disposal of the Senate, it could act as it saw fit, -- to get rid of a troublesome protector, he implied, no less than an open enemy.

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

The "Optimates," or "Boni," as Cicero indifferently calls them -- meaning, as we should say, the upper classes, who were minded to stand by their order -- believed in him, though they did not just at that time wish to confide to him the power which the people gave him.

Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848

If the government is administered by many, it is given the name common to all forms of government, viz., “polity,” as for instance when a group of warriors exercise dominion over a city or province.18 If it is administered by a few men of virtue, this kind of government is called an “aristocracy,” i.e., noble governance, or governance by noble men, who for this reason are called the “Optimates.”

The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997

Caesar was now best known as a man of pleasure, celebrated for his debts and his intrigues; in politics he had no force behind [Sidenote: Opposition to the Optimates.] him save that of the discredited party of the

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Optimates made it difficult to reckon on their support, and made that support a very questionable benefit if accorded.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

Plutarch (_Lucull. _ 42) says that the "Pompeians," annoyed at finding the union with Cæsar opposed by the leading Optimates, induced

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero