Roman Republic

How To Use Roman Republic In A Sentence

• During the prime of the Roman Republic, roughly the last two centuries B.C., it served as a northern boundary protecting the heartland of Italy and the city of Rome from its own imperial armies.
• This city was settled by Phoenicians in the archaic period and it challenged the rising Roman Republic in three wars culminating in its own destruction in the second century B.C.E.
• Before then its appearance is, on ‎ the whole, limited to the Greek poleis, the Roman Republic, and the mediaeval European ‎ city-states. The Seven Dimensions
• After 1792 the trappings of Roman republicanism became fashionable, with fasces and axes; and stern ancient patriots like Brutus, Scaevola, and Cato, familiar to all men of education, were much invoked.
• And with this in mind, and in the renewed hope that I may live long enough to see the task through, I shall now relate the extraordinary story of Cicero’s year in office as consul of the Roman republic and what befell him in the four years afterward—a span of time we mortals call a lustrum, but which to the gods is no more than the blinking of an eye. CONSPIRATA
• An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic, ranking below but having approximately the same functions as a consul.
• The invention of democracy and political rule, and then the tradition of governing by means of political debate among citizens, has its roots in the practices and thought of the Greek polis and the ancient Roman republic.
• They have taken to heart, perhaps overly so, lessons from the ancient Roman Republic, where the consuls were to serve for no more than a single year.
• An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic, ranking below but having approximately the same functions as a consul.
• On heroization and divine honors for great men in the late Roman Republic, see Stefan Weinstock, Divius Julius Oxford: Clarendon, 1971, pp. The Spartacus War