Optimate

Marius completely underestimated his optimate adversaries. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Caesar, as consul, employed Pompey's veterans to overcome violently optimate opposition. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The popularis consul of 87, L. Cornelius Cinna, went to war with his optimate colleague and captured Rome with the support of Marius, who then began slaughtering his optimate enemies. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Caesar, as long as he held office, was immune to optimate attempts to prosecute him for illegal acts as consul in 59. ❋ Unknown (2001)

L. Cornelius Sulla, a successful optimate general in the Social War and consul in 88, received the command against Mithridates. ❋ Unknown (2001)

In Rome the tribune P. Clodius pursued a popularis program (e.g., free grain), thwarting optimate opposition with gangs of thugs organized under the guise of legitimate collegia (clubs). ❋ Unknown (2001)

He raised an army but was defeated in 77 by his optimate colleague, Q. Lutatius Catulus, and Pompey. ❋ Unknown (2001)

As consul, Octavian abandoned his optimate friends, passed laws calling for the arrest of Caesar's assassins, and began to negotiate with Antony, who had joined Lepidus in northern Italy. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Pompey began to move away from Caesar by marrying the daughter of the optimate, Metellus Scipio, whom he had elected as his consular colleague. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The Marian leader Q. Sertorius held optimate generals at bay in Spain. ❋ Unknown (2001)

His opponents retaliated by having the optimate tribune T. Annius Milo organize his own band of thugs. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Octavian publicly attacked Antony for treating with Caesar's killers and privately negotiated with optimate senators. ❋ Unknown (2001)

But the optimate senate, led by M. Porcius Cato, refused to ratify his eastern settlement and blocked a land bill for his veterans. ❋ Unknown (2001)

He had tried to ensure senatorial rule and optimate supremacy against the challenges of tribunes and generals like himself. ❋ Unknown (2001)

They abandoned the optimate cause by restoring the powers of the tribunes, reconstructing the jury panels (as one-third senators, one-third equestrians, and one-third of the next wealthiest class—tribuni aerarii), and reinstituting censors, who enrolled great numbers of new Italian citizens. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The elaboration of her sateen costume (somewhat dirty and torn now) showed that she was an optimate. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1980)

"Goodman!" the old fellow bawled, forgetting he had said his tenant was an optimate. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1980)

Marius and Sulla, the plebeian and the optimate, the man without education of the schools, and the master of classic culture, were brought together in Africa in the year 107. ❋ Arthur Gilman (N/A)

Lucius Cornelius Sulla was an optimate of illustrious ancestry and hereditary wealth, a student of the literature and art of Greece and his native land, and he united in his person all the vices as well as accomplishments that Cato had been accustomed to denounce with the utmost vigor. ❋ Arthur Gilman (N/A)

The laconic, matter-of-fact mouth, and the resolute jaw add strength and courage to the physiognomy: the nose and its disdainful nostrils are those of the haughty optimate. ❋ David Lindsay Crawford (1905)