 | George Willis Botsford, Lillie M. Shaw Botsford - 1903 - 352 pages
...possess the right of suffrage shall stay in the city or approach within forty stadia of it while the voting is going on concerning these laws." The senate...required to give reasons for his veto. In order to win the people they gave Drusus the privilege of founding twelve colonies, and the plebeians were so... | |
 | George Willis Botsford, Lillie M. Shaw Botsford - 1912 - 616 pages
...World, 361-5. right of suffrage shall stay in the city or approach within forty stadia of it while the voting is going on concerning these laws." The senate...required to give reasons for his veto. In order to win the people they gave Drusus the privilege of founding twelve colonies, and the plebeians were so... | |
 | Appianus (of Alexandria.) - 1913 - 590 pages
...who does not possess the right of suffrage shall stay in the city or approach within forty stades1 of it while voting is going on concerning these laws."...twelve colonies, and the plebeians were so much pleased with this that they scoffed at the laws proposed by Gracchus. 24. Having lost the favour of the rabble,... | |
 | Ronald Mellor - 1998 - 548 pages
...citizenship, since the Senate could not with decency refuse this privilege to men of the same race. To the other allies, who were not allowed to vote...twelve colonies, and the plebeians were so much pleased with this that they scoffed at the laws proposed by Gracchus. 24. Having lost the favor of the rabble,... | |
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The Senate also persuaded Livius Drusus, another tribune, to interpose his veto against the laws proposed by Gracchus, but not to tell the people his reasons for doing so ; for a tribune was not required to give reasons for his veto. In order to conciliate... 