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Alphabetical [« »] semnones 1 sempronian 2 sempronius 2 senate 323 senate-house 9 senator 27 senatorian 4 | Frequency [« »] 352 himself 333 more 333 she 323 senate 318 men 317 no 314 i | Publius (Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus Annals Concordances senate |
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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