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  1     I,      2|       himself the functions of the Senate, the magistrates, and the
  2     I,      2|   distrusted the government of the Senate and the people, because
  3     I,      6|   explanation of the matter to the Senate; he pretended that there
  4     I,      6|        sanction of a decree of the Senate for his banishment. But
  5     I,      6|           must be justified to the Senate. ~ ~
  6     I,      7|        referring everything to the Senate, for "the condition," he
  7     I,      8|            corn supplies. Then the Senate, the soldiers and the people
  8     I,      9|      soldiers went with him to the Senate House. He sent letters to
  9     I,      9|          only when he spoke in the Senate. His chief motive was fear
 10     I,     10|            On the first day of the Senate he allowed nothing to be
 11     I,     14|            when by a decree of the Senate he had usurped the high
 12     I,     14|         consulate from a reluctant Senate, and turned against the
 13     I,     15|        second time asking from the Senate the tribunitian power for
 14     I,     17|                Meantime, while the Senate stooped to the most abject
 15     I,     18|          there was a hope that the Senate's prayers would not be fruitless,
 16     I,     19|                  Great too was the Senate's sycophancy to Augusta.
 17     I,     19|          handed down, and when the Senate urged Tiberius to increase
 18     I,     20|          the Campus Martius to the Senate. For up to that day, though
 19     I,     20|            mere idle talk, and the Senate, being now released from
 20     I,     31|           must be reserved for the Senate, which ought to have a voice
 21     I,     32|            answer reference to the Senate and to his father, he was
 22     I,     32|            emperor to refer to the Senate merely what concerned the
 23     I,     32|       interests. Was then the same Senate to be consulted whenever
 24     I,     33|           to the emperor or to the Senate, there also to oppose the
 25     I,     50|          Meanwhile envoys from the Senate had an interview with Germanicus,
 26     I,     50|            persons had come at the Senate's orders to cancel the concessions
 27     I,     50|            being the author of the Senate's decree. At midnight they
 28     I,     55|          foot the authority of the Senate? Even the rights of public
 29     I,     56|            only you restore to the Senate their envoys, to the emperor
 30     I,     60|         which he was befooling the senate and the people, feeble and
 31     I,     60|      vigour of life, to sit in the Senate and criticise its members'
 32     I,     69|            under the notice of the Senate, and spoke much of his greatness
 33     I,     95|         his enactments, though the Senate voted it, for he said repeatedly
 34     I,     99|        judicial proceedings in the Senate, the emperor would sit at
 35     I,     99|             and he appealed to the Senate for assistance. He was opposed
 36     I,     99|            prove their case to the Senate, as from his love of strictness
 37     I,    102|         subject of a debate in the Senate, and opinions were expressed
 38     I,    102|             who liked to allow the Senate such shows of freedom. Still
 39     I,    104|    question was then raised in the Senate by Arruntius and Ateius
 40    II,     35|     demanded an inquiry before the Senate. The Senators were summoned,
 41    II,     36|       apprehension. On the day the Senate met, jaded with fear and
 42    II,     36|         litter to the doors of the Senate House, and leaning on his
 43    II,     37|          an ancient statute of the Senate forbade such inquiry in
 44    II,     37|     without an infringement of the Senate's decree, Libo might be
 45    II,     38|      should address himself to the Senate. Meanwhile his house was
 46    II,     38|   prosecution was continued in the Senate with the same persistency,
 47    II,     40|                     Decrees of the Senate were also passed to expel
 48    II,     41|             On the next day of the Senate's meeting much was said
 49    II,     42|        moment he rose to leave the Senate House. Tiberius was much
 50    II,     43|       cause which was tried by the Senate she would not condescend
 51    II,     44|           might have honour of its Senate and knights being able to
 52    II,     46|       standing at the doors of the Senate House, the Senate then sitting
 53    II,     46|           of the Senate House, the Senate then sitting in the palace,
 54    II,     47|                                The Senate's favourable bias was an
 55    II,     47|      thereby bringing odium on the Senate and on emperors whether
 56    II,     47|    pressure on the delicacy of the Senate, then transfer the same
 57    II,     54|           was arraigned before the Senate. In his anguish and in the
 58    II,     56|        already related, before the Senate. "The commotions in the
 59    II,     56|      Thereupon, by a decree of the Senate, the provinces beyond sea
 60    II,     62|            was to be sent from the Senate to examine their actual
 61    II,     63|     virtuous, he expelled from the Senate or suffered voluntarily
 62    II,     65|             on the next day of the Senate's meeting, he even begged
 63    II,     66|    rejoiced to see a strife in the Senate between his sons and the
 64    II,     67|            his achievements in the Senate, and the Senators voted
 65    II,     81|            he had come. But in the Senate he maintained that Philip
 66    II,     83|         Armenia by Germanicus, the Senate decreed that both he and
 67    II,     85|        neither the emperor nor the Senate would decide on the right
 68    II,     87|          He was accused before the Senate by the wife of Cotys, and
 69    II,     93|            of complaint before the Senate, of an appeal to the laws.
 70    II,    109|   magistrate's proclamation or the Senate's resolution, there was
 71    II,    114|            and a resolution of the Senate was passed that four thousand
 72    II,    117|            Chatti, was read in the Senate, promising the death of
 73   III,     11|           of the people and of the Senate; while Tiberius, he knew,
 74   III,     12|     referred the whole case to the Senate. ~ ~
 75   III,     13|         from Illyricum, though the Senate had voted him an ovation
 76   III,     14|                     On the day the Senate met, Tiberius delivered
 77   III,     14|       myself, on the advice of the Senate, to assist Germanicus in
 78   III,     15|          the forum, and before the Senate instead of before a bench
 79   III,     17|            made on a province, the Senate because they could not be
 80   III,     18|         the people in front of the Senate House, threatening violence
 81   III,     19|          and once more entered the Senate. There he bore patiently
 82   III,     20|           to produce it before the Senate and upbraid the emperor,
 83   III,     21|         sadness, complained in the Senate that the purpose of such
 84   III,     23|            and rescue her from the Senate. What the laws secure on
 85   III,     26|         Lucius Asprenas before the Senate, whether the omission had
 86   III,     27|            emperor proposed to the Senate to confer the priesthood
 87   III,     32|    compassion. He first begged the Senate not to deal with the charges
 88   III,     36|          ventured to appeal to the Senate and to the prince, in reliance
 89   III,     36|        thanked him, replied in the Senate's presence, "that he too
 90   III,     36|    banished not by a decree of the Senate or under any law. Still,
 91   III,     39|        flagrant a corrupter in the Senate's name; hence, the bribing
 92   III,     41|           time he commended to the Senate's favour, Nero, Germanicus'
 93   III,     45|      ex-praetor, complained to the Senate that Lucius Sulla, a young
 94   III,     47|   afterwards Tiberius informed the Senate by letter that Africa was
 95   III,     47|          province of Asia. But the Senate were against him, for they
 96   III,     51|          was thus defeated. At the Senate's next meeting came a letter
 97   III,     52|            on the threshold of the Senate House, Annia Rufilla, whom
 98   III,     53|       proposal, by a decree of the Senate, for having attacked the
 99   III,     61|            with treason before the Senate? We have at last found men
100   III,     65|         last Tiberius informed the Senate by letter of the beginning
101   III,     66|                                The Senate decreed vows for his safe
102   III,     67|         same time he requested the Senate to let the death of Sulpicius
103   III,     67|         made all this known to the Senate, and extolled the good offices
104   III,     70|         Tiberius complained to the Senate with his usual ambiguity,
105   III,     70|          censuring Agrippa. So the Senate passed a resolution that
106   III,     70|       condemned persons. Still the Senate had not liberty to alter
107   III,     72|                                The Senate on being consulted had,
108   III,     72|          addressed a letter to the Senate to the following purport:-~ ~
109   III,     75|           No one represents to the Senate that Italy requires supplies
110   III,     78|            often admitted into the Senate from the towns, colonies
111   III,     79|   informers, wrote a letter to the Senate requesting the tribunitian
112   III,     81|            should be set up in the Senate House in letters of gold,
113   III,     83|           gods, does not enter the Senate, does not so much as take
114   III,     84|        imperial power, allowed the Senate some shadow of its old constitution
115   III,     85|    spectacle on that day, when the Senate examined grants made by
116   III,     89|           the entire matter to the Senate. Besides the states already
117   III,     89|           Augustus. Decrees of the Senate were passed, which though
118   III,     90|            resentment. However the Senate now decreed supplications
119   III,     94|         proconsul of Asia, and the Senate's sentence on him to be
120   III,     98|         show of independence. "The Senate," he said, "ought not to
121   III,    101|        same time Lepidus asked the Senate's leave to restore and embellish,
122   III,    102|          of a single building. The Senate voted Sejanus a statue,
123    IV,      3|  centurions and tribunes. With the Senate too he sought to ingratiate
124    IV,      5|         the honours decreed by the Senate to his brother Nero. The
125    IV,      7|        matters were managed by the Senate: the leading men were allowed
126    IV,     10|           Tiberius, he went to the Senate house during the whole time
127    IV,     10|         proper place; and when the Senate burst into tears, suppressing
128    IV,     10|       encountering the gaze of the Senate after so recent an affliction.
129    IV,     11|     declining years, he begged the Senate to summon Germanicus's children,
130    IV,     16|           Rostra, during which the Senate and people, in appearance
131    IV,     17|        from allies. Decrees of the Senate were passed at his proposal
132    IV,     19|          it must be checked by the Senate's authority. The players,
133    IV,     20|          man of humble origin, the Senate decreed him a censor's funeral
134    IV,     20|            yet in the hands of the Senate, and consequently Lucilius
135    IV,     20|      Tiberius, his mother, and the Senate, and were permitted to build
136    IV,     21|          husband's control. So the Senate, Tiberius argued, ought
137    IV,     23|         addressed a warning to the Senate against encouraging pride
138    IV,     25|            appeal, he summoned the Senate, as if there were any laws
139    IV,     27|     disposition, proposed that the Senate should pass a decree providing
140    IV,     28|    exclaimed more than once in the Senate that he would quit Rome
141    IV,     29|          whenever he came into the Senate. This was passed over as
142    IV,     30| quarrelsomeness, a decision of the Senate, under oath, which banished
143    IV,     31|            He reported this to the Senate, and as soon as judges had
144    IV,     35|          anciently bestowed by the Senate, and to confer on him the
145    IV,     37|            were brought before the Senate; the father, dragged from
146    IV,     39|                                The Senate then gave their votes that
147    IV,     42|          feeling that he bound the Senate by an oath that this was
148    IV,     43|      oppose his expulsion from the Senate. ~ ~
149    IV,     45|       accurately the spirit of the Senate and aristocracy, had the
150    IV,     49|                   He then left the Senate and ended his life by starvation.
151    IV,     51|           sent a deputation to the Senate, with a request to be allowed,
152    IV,     52|           of reverence towards the Senate. But though it may be pardonable
153    IV,     56|     presents itself, either in the Senate, or in a popular assembly,
154    IV,     58|         shun all assemblies of the Senate, where speeches, often true
155    IV,     58|           from the register of the Senate for not having sworn obedience
156    IV,     62|       death, and his bones, by the Senate's decree, were consigned
157    IV,     73|           continually attended the Senate, and gave an audience of
158    IV,     74|            our legions. And so the Senate, when the question was put,
159    IV,     81|        provided by a decree of the Senate that no one was to exhibit
160    IV,     82|            a vote of thanks in the Senate from its distinguished members,
161    IV,     84|         race, his own kindred. The Senate however stopped the proceeding,
162    IV,     85|       protection of the people and Senate. These counsels they disdained,
163    IV,     90|           his apprehensions to the Senate and allow their removal.
164    IV,     94|          with the war. Nor did the Senate care whether dishonour fell
165     V,      2|      seemed, the honours which the Senate had voted on a lavish scale
166     V,      3|      panic-stricken silence of the Senate, till a few who had no hope
167     V,      4|                   There was in the Senate one Junius Rusticus, who
168     V,      5|       ground for alleging that the Senate disregarded the emperor'
169     V,      6|            edict complained to the Senate that by the trick of one
170    VI,      2|            whenever he entered the Senate House. The man had actually
171    VI,      2|            on the threshold of the Senate House? His life was not
172    VI,      3|       immediate expulsion from the Senate, and then from Italy. And
173    VI,      5|           ex-consuls, implored the Senate not to increase the emperor'
174    VI,      6|        remark, "They will have the Senate's support; I shall have
175    VI,      8|    Authority was then given to the Senate to decide the case of Caecilianus,
176    VI,      9|       Cestius, the elder, tell the Senate what he had communicated
177    VI,      9|        that leading members of the Senate, some openly, some secretly
178    VI,     11|            following avowal to the Senate: "In my position it is perhaps
179    VI,     13|          try them himself with the Senate, not however without affixing
180    VI,     14|        were the proceedings in the Senate. It was the same with the
181    VI,     16|        similar credit, was, by the Senate's decree, honoured with
182    VI,     17|        next brought forward in the Senate by Quintilianus, a tribune
183    VI,     17|    introduced the matter in a thin Senate, notwithstanding his long
184    VI,     18|            the magistrates and the Senate for not having used the
185    VI,     18|           than by Augustus. So the Senate drew up a decree in the
186    VI,     20|       letter on the subject to the Senate, with a slightly complimentary
187    VI,     20|            decree was voted by the Senate on a liberal scale and without
188    VI,     21|            refer the matter to the Senate. In their dismay the senators,
189    VI,     22|       exchequer. To meet this, the Senate had directed that every
190    VI,     22|     according to the letter of the Senate's decree, rigour at the
191    VI,     23|          he was hurried before the Senate, condemned and instantly
192    VI,     34|                                The Senate clamorously interrupted,
193    VI,     42|          argued in a letter to the Senate that it had been the practice
194    VI,     64|          or wisdom, form a kind of senate, and the people have powers
195    VI,     73|       proceedings furnished to the Senate that Macro had superintended
196    VI,     75|      ineffectual wound, was by the Senate's order carried off to prison.
197    VI,     76|            on her trial before the Senate, and, although she grovelled
198    XI,      2|              No hearing before the Senate was granted him. It was
199    XI,     18|            then brought before the Senate the subject of the college
200    XI,     18|           instigation of the Roman Senate, had retained this science,
201    XI,     18|   prosperity." A resolution of the Senate was accordingly passed,
202    XI,     22|         the same time, gave them a senate, magistrates, and a constitution.
203    XI,     27|          be elected to fill up the Senate, to which he had intrusted
204    XI,     28|         question of filling up the Senate was discussed, and the chief
205    XI,     28|     furnish its own capital with a senate. Once our native-born citizens
206    XI,     28|            the distinctions of the Senate and the honours of office."~ ~
207    XI,     29|            harangued the assembled Senate. "My ancestors, the most
208    XI,     29|         have been brought into the Senate from Etruria and Lucania
209    XI,     31|        followed by a decree of the Senate, and the Aedui were the
210    XI,     32|  considering how he was to rid the Senate of men of notorious infamy,
211    XI,     33|           be called "Father of the Senate." The title of "Father of
212    XI,     39|          The people, the army, the Senate saw the marriage of Silius.
213    XI,     45|      father, which a decree of the Senate had directed to be destroyed;
214    XI,     49|          her weeping children. The Senate assisted his forgetfulness
215   XII,      5|         suddenly expelled from the Senate by an edict of Vitellius,
216   XII,      6|            to the authority of the Senate. When Claudius replied that
217   XII,      6|       while he himself went to the Senate. Protesting that the supreme
218   XII,      7|      decided acquiescence from the Senate, began afresh to point out,
219   XII,      8|         some who rushed out of the Senate passionately protesting
220   XII,      8| congratulations; then entering the Senate, he asked from them a decree
221   XII,     11|            was introduced into the Senate, and delivered a message
222   XII,     11|        back on the emperor and the Senate, and receive from them a
223   XII,     25|        accused, first reminded the Senate of her illustrious rank,
224   XII,     26|           special reverence of the Senate, received a privilege. Senators
225   XII,     30|           and made a speech in the senate, the same in substance as
226   XII,     45|                                The Senate was then assembled, and
227   XII,     49|         with the flatteries of the Senate who wished Nero to enter
228   XII,     49|          cancelling at home of the Senate's decree and the people'
229   XII,     62|                    A decree of the Senate was then passed for the
230   XII,     63|     proceedings he proposed to the Senate a penalty on women who united
231   XII,     63|           poverty. A decree of the Senate was publicly inscribed on
232   XII,     69|         end to his life before the Senate's decision was pronounced.
233   XII,     69|          however expelled from the Senate, a point which the senators
234   XII,     70|         secured by a decree of the Senate on a more complete and ample
235   XII,     70|      Servilius restoring it to the Senate, while it was for this above
236   XII,     72|    audience, in complaining to the Senate of their heavy burdens,
237   XII,     73|         emperor, who argued to the Senate that, exhausted as they
238   XII,     79|                      Meanwhile the Senate was summoned, and prayers
239   XII,     80|        emperor. The decrees of the Senate followed the voice of the
240  XIII,      3|          the best of mothers." The Senate also decreed her two lictors,
241  XIII,      5|           of sorrow he entered the Senate, and having first referred
242  XIII,      5|        kept entirely distinct. The Senate should retain its ancient
243  XIII,      6|      arrangements were made on the Senate's authority. No one was
244  XIII,      9|           with exaggeration to the Senate, in the speeches of those
245  XIII,     11|            the same year asked the Senate for a statue to his father
246  XIII,     11|      offers made, and although the Senate passed a vote that the year
247  XIII,     19|           ought to be shown by the Senate and people towards a prince
248  XIII,     30|            was a discussion in the Senate on the misconduct of the
249  XIII,     30|           though they recorded the Senate's general opinion, to see
250  XIII,     32|         the emperor replied to the Senate that, whenever freedmen
251  XIII,     33|        praetor had imprisoned. The Senate approved the imprisonment,
252  XIII,     35|      altered. Augustus allowed the Senate to appoint commissioners;
253  XIII,     39|                                The Senate next passed a decree, providing
254  XIII,     52|        saluted emperor, and by the Senate's decree a thanksgiving
255  XIII,     53|          believed, a decree of the Senate was revived, along with
256  XIII,     57|   condemned by the sentence of the Senate under "the law concerning
257  XIII,     62|          from Puteoli, sent to the Senate by the town council and
258  XIII,     63|         very trivial decree of the Senate which allowed the city of
259  XIII,     63|           freedom of speech in the Senate, did he pursue such trifling
260  XIII,     70|         the knights, where was the Senate, till they observed some
261   XIV,      1|          divulge the wrongs of the Senate, and the wrath of the people
262   XIV,      9|      soldiery, or hastening to the Senate and the people, to charge
263   XIV,     15|           and sent a letter to the Senate, the drift of which was
264   XIV,     16|             to the disgrace of the Senate and people; how, when she
265   XIV,     16|        fury with the soldiers, the Senate, and the populace, she opposed
266   XIV,     17|             then walked out of the Senate, thereby imperilling himself,
267   XIV,     19|          whether he would find the Senate submissive and the populace
268   XIV,     19|      coming forth to meet him, the Senate in holiday attire, troops
269   XIV,     24|         related, expelled from the Senate. With the unruly spirit
270   XIV,     24|           trial of the case to the Senate, and the Senate to the consuls,
271   XIV,     24|        case to the Senate, and the Senate to the consuls, and then
272   XIV,     25|         was also expelled from the Senate on the accusation of the
273   XIV,     25|         towards the judge, but the Senate replied that they knew nothing
274   XIV,     27|   encouragement of the emperor and Senate, who not only granted licence
275   XIV,     38|            now generally under the Senate's control there was the
276   XIV,     38|          raised the dignity of the Senate, by deciding that all who
277   XIV,     52|            against them before the Senate, and Fabianus and Antonius
278   XIV,     53|            clause was added to the Senate's decree, that whoever bought
279   XIV,     54|          insurrection. Even in the Senate there was a strong feeling
280   XIV,     55|            or divulged, though the Senate's decree, which threatens
281   XIV,     60|            from death one whom the Senate had condemned. Though Ostorius
282   XIV,     60|       excellent a prince, and by a Senate bound by no compulsion. "
283   XIV,     61|         did not dare to ratify the Senate's vote, and simply communicated
284   XIV,     61|          had been submitted to the Senate, and that it was right that
285   XIV,     62|      withdraw his proposal, or the Senate reject what it had once
286   XIV,     78|           however, a letter to the Senate, confessing nothing about
287   XIV,     78|        also the expulsion from the Senate of Sulla and Plautus, more
288   XIV,     79|       receiving this decree of the Senate and seeing that every piece
289   XIV,     85|        Still, if any decree of the Senate was marked by some new flattery,
290    XV,     21|            had been decreed by the Senate, while the war was yet undecided,
291    XV,     22|          An appeal was made to the Senate under a keen sense of wrong.
292    XV,     23|           On this, a decree of the Senate was passed that a fictitious
293    XV,     24|           of a gross insult to the Senate; for he had repeatedly declared
294    XV,     27|           great unanimity, but the Senate's resolution could not be
295    XV,     27|           ought to be given in the Senate to propraetors or proconsuls,
296    XV,     29|          was born. Already had the Senate commended Poppaea's safety
297    XV,     30|         observed that when all the Senate rushed out to Antium to
298    XV,     46|           should he be absent. The Senate and leading citizens were
299    XV,     63|         the emperor's crimes. "The Senate," she affirmed, "had no
300    XV,     94|            in war, he summoned the Senate, and awarded triumphal honours
301    XV,     96|        Nero meanwhile summoned the Senate, addressed them in a speech,
302    XV,     96|     capital. When every one in the Senate, those especially who had
303    XV,     97|            in the registers of the Senate that Cerialis Anicius, consul-elect,
304   XVI,      4|                      Meanwhile the Senate, as they were now on the
305   XVI,      4|      wanted neither favour nor the Senate's influence, as he was a
306   XVI,      7|       emperor accordingly sent the Senate a speech in which he argued
307   XVI,      9|                                The Senate was then consulted and sentences
308   XVI,     12|        judicial proceedings in the Senate and a dreadful sentence
309   XVI,     22|           he had walked out of the Senate when Agrippina's case was
310   XVI,     25|           about Thrasea; leave the Senate to decide for us." Nero
311   XVI,     27|      guiltless man, he ordered the Senate to be summoned.~ ~
312   XVI,     28|          best for him to enter the Senate house said that they counted
313   XVI,     28|          could meet death. Let the Senate hear words, almost of divine
314   XVI,     29|          the like. Better save the Senate which you have adorned to
315   XVI,     30|        against the sentence of the Senate. Thrasea checked his impetuous
316   XVI,     30|            became him to enter the Senate. ~ ~
317   XVI,     31|        blocked the approach to the Senate. Through the squares and
318   XVI,     32|    presence of an ex-consul in the Senate, of a priest when we offer
319   XVI,     33|          perils had habituated the Senate gave way to a new and profounder
320   XVI,     34|           and the trial before the Senate have no dreadful result. ~ ~
321   XVI,     35|    accordingly summoned before the Senate, and there they stood facing
322   XVI,     39|        told him in detail what the Senate had decided. When all who
323   XVI,     41|                  When he heard the Senate's decision, he led Helvidius
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