Division of Political Power At Rome
Such, then, is the distribution of power between theThe mutual relation of the three. |
The Consul dependent on the Senate, |
and on the people. |
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The mutual relation of the three. |
The Consul dependent on the Senate, |
and on the people. |
1 εὐθύνας. Polybius uses a word well known at Athens and other Greek states, but the audit of a Consul seems to have been one of money accounts only. At the expiration, however, of his office he took an oath in public that he had obeyed the laws, and if any prosecution were brought against him it would be tried before the people. See the case of Publius Claudius, 1, 52.
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