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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 total)

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

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