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privilege of voting together with those who had manumitted them, that is, in the same tribe as their patroni; this law, however, was almost immediately declared null and void by the See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate. Both parties in the See also:

state were offended by the law, and Manilius endeavoured to secure the support of See also:

POMPEY

Pompey by proposing to confer upon him the command of the See also:

war against See also:

MITHRADATES

Mithradates with unlimited See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power (see POMPEY). The proposal was supported by See also:

CICERO

Cicero in his speech, See also:

Pro lege Manilia, and carried almost unanimously. Manilius was later accused by the aristocratical party on some unknown See also:

charge and defended by Cicero. He was probably convicted, but nothing further is heard of him. See.Cicero's speech; Dio See also:

Cassius See also:

XXXVI

xxxvi. 25–27• See also:

Plutarch, Pompey, 30; Vell. Pat. ii. 33; See also:

art. See also:

ROME: See also:

HISTORY

History, § II.

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