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institution

the ancestors (maiores)

our ancestors

also: maiores, maioribus, our forefathers

The Roman forefathers, repeatedly invoked by Quintus as having instituted, observed, and validated the practices of divination, augury, and omen.

Mentioned in 66 works (255 total)

On Invention rhetoric · 2 mentions
For Sextus Roscius of Ameria speeches · 8 mentions
For Marcus Tullius speeches · 6 mentions
Against Caecilius (Divinatio) speeches · 5 mentions
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book I speeches · 5 mentions
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book II speeches · 5 mentions
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book III speeches · 4 mentions
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book IV speeches · 4 mentions
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book V speeches · 11 mentions
Against Verres, First Hearing speeches · 1 mention
For Aulus Caecina speeches · 11 mentions
For Marcus Fonteius speeches · 2 mentions
For Aulus Cluentius speeches · 8 mentions
On the Manilian Law (On the Command of Pompey) speeches · 5 mentions
On the Agrarian Law, First Speech speeches · 5 mentions
On the Agrarian Law, Second Speech speeches · 20 mentions
On the Agrarian Law, Third Speech speeches · 1 mention
Against Catiline, First Speech speeches · 2 mentions
Against Catiline, Second Speech speeches · 1 mention
For Lucius Murena speeches · 6 mentions
For Gaius Rabirius on a Charge of High Treason speeches · 3 mentions
Ad Familiares 5.1 letters · 1 mention
For the Poet Aulus Licinius Archias speeches · 1 mention
For Publius Sulla speeches · 2 mentions
Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.1 letters · 1 mention
For Lucius Flaccus speeches · 3 mentions
On His House speeches · 13 mentions
On His Return: To the Senate speeches · 2 mentions
On the Responses of the Haruspices speeches · 7 mentions
On the Consular Provinces speeches · 2 mentions
For Lucius Cornelius Balbus speeches · 6 mentions
For Marcus Caelius speeches · 1 mention
For Publius Sestius speeches · 8 mentions
On the Orator rhetoric · 1 mention
Against Piso speeches · 1 mention
On the Commonwealth philosophy · 7 mentions
The Subdivisions of Oratory rhetoric · 3 mentions
For Gnaeus Plancius speeches · 3 mentions
For Marcus Aemilius Scaurus speeches · 2 mentions
On the Laws philosophy · 14 mentions
For Titus Annius Milo speeches · 4 mentions
Ad Familiares 3.7 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 3.10 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 9.5 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 4.9 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 13.26 letters · 1 mention
Brutus rhetoric · 2 mentions
Orator: To Marcus Brutus rhetoric · 1 mention
On the Ends of Good and Evil philosophy · 2 mentions
On the Nature of the Gods philosophy · 4 mentions
For King Deiotarus speeches · 1 mention
Cato the Elder, On Old Age philosophy · 4 mentions
On Divination philosophy · 4 mentions
On Duties philosophy · 6 mentions
Laelius, On Friendship philosophy · 2 mentions
First Philippic speeches · 1 mention
Second Philippic speeches · 2 mentions
Third Philippic speeches · 3 mentions
Ad M. Brutum 1.15 letters · 1 mention
Ad M. Brutum 1.17 letters · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 9.24 letters · 1 mention
Tenth Philippic speeches · 1 mention
Thirteenth Philippic speeches · 1 mention
Fifth Philippic speeches · 4 mentions
Eighth Philippic speeches · 7 mentions
Ninth Philippic speeches · 5 mentions

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