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Optimates

the best men

also: Optimatibus, optimates, the best men

The party or class of the 'best men' in Roman politics; Cicero's voting law makes the ballot known to them while keeping it free to the common people, to preserve their authority.

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Mentioned in 30 works (53 mentions)

On Invention rhet · 1 mention
For Quintus Roscius the Comic Actor speech · 2 mentions
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book II speech · 1 mention
On the Manilian Law (On the Command of Pompey) speech · 1 mention
For the Poet Aulus Licinius Archias speech · 1 mention
For Publius Sulla speech · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 1.13 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 1.14 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 1.17 letter · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.1 letter · 1 mention
For Lucius Flaccus speech · 4 mentions
On the Responses of the Haruspices speech · 5 mentions
For Publius Sestius speech · 9 mentions
On the Commonwealth phil · 3 mentions
On the Laws phil · 5 mentions
For Titus Annius Milo speech · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 8.16 letter · 2 mentions
Ad Atticum 9.4 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 9.9 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 9.11 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 8.16 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 14.21 letter · 1 mention
Cato the Elder, On Old Age phil · 1 mention
First Philippic speech · 1 mention
Topics: To Gaius Trebatius rhet · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 10.12 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 10.15 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 10.23 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 10.31 letter · 1 mention
Fifth Philippic speech · 1 mention

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