1972
DOI: 10.1017/s0009838800042117
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Cicero and the Word Popularis

Abstract: It has by now become a commonplace among the historians of the republic that optimates and populares were not political parties in any modern sense. Nevertheless the ghost of the ‘popular party’ still lingers in subtle disguises, the most insidious of which is donned whenever populares is translated as ‘the populares’, with all that the definite article may imply.

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“…6 That is to say, it was the domain of the populares, not a party in the modern sense (Lintott, 1999, pp. 174-5), but a concern to Cicero, an element of instability with a dangerous tendency towards leveling (Seager, 1972). Given elite concerns with maintaining and projecting dignitas, a non-vehement mode of speaking was linked to the conservative optimates who Cicero favored; yet Cicero was quite able to speak in the vehement style (see Morstein-Marx, 2004, chs 4-5).What mattered, then, was less the style one used than the ability to use different styles depending on the situation.…”
Section: Comparing Machiavelli's Prince and Cicero's Oratormentioning
confidence: 99%
“…6 That is to say, it was the domain of the populares, not a party in the modern sense (Lintott, 1999, pp. 174-5), but a concern to Cicero, an element of instability with a dangerous tendency towards leveling (Seager, 1972). Given elite concerns with maintaining and projecting dignitas, a non-vehement mode of speaking was linked to the conservative optimates who Cicero favored; yet Cicero was quite able to speak in the vehement style (see Morstein-Marx, 2004, chs 4-5).What mattered, then, was less the style one used than the ability to use different styles depending on the situation.…”
Section: Comparing Machiavelli's Prince and Cicero's Oratormentioning
confidence: 99%
“…153 Πβ. και Martin (1965)·Meier (1965)· Doblhofer (1990) ειδικά για τα έτη 111-99 π.Χ.· κυρίως όμως Seager (1972), όπου δεν αναδεικνύεται βεβαίως η φιλοσοφική αφόρμηση του Κικέρωνα για τη νοηματοδότηση της λέξης, υποστηρίζεται πάντως ότι η λέξη populares δεν παραπέμπει σε καμία περίπτωση σε κανενός είδους οργανωμένη κομματική ή άλλη παράταξη, ενισχύοντας από την άποψη αυτήν και τη δική μας θέση· στους αντίποδες βλ. Μέγας (1991 2 ) τεύχ.…”
Section: Iv7 O όρος Popularisunclassified
“…290 Seager (1972b) examines the use of the word popularis in Cicero in two sections, the first on Ciceronian nuances of the definition in the pro Sestio, the second on the tactics Cicero uses to verbally tackle those of his opponents who claim to be popularis. Seager (331 f.) emphasises the existence of a shared tradition of actions, slogans and values, encompassing constitutional rights and protection of these (libertas, provocatio, laws on voting and sovereign powers of the assembly), plebis commoda (agrarian, corn and colony laws), the tribunate and the imitation of popularis models.…”
Section: Organisation and Leadershipmentioning
confidence: 99%