"Optimates" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... indifferently mentioned. Suspicion clung longest to Carbo, probably as the man who had lately come into the most direct conflict with his supposed victim; even Carbo's subsequent conversion to conservatism could not clear his name, and his guilt seems to have been almost an article of faith amongst the optimates of the Ciceronian period. But there were other versions which hinted at domestic crime. Did not Cornelia have an interest in removing the man who was undoing the work of her son, and might she not have had a willing accomplice in Scipio's wife ...
— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge
... before Henry I. and his court, at Carentan, in 1106, he declaimed with so much effect against the effeminate custom of wearing long beards and long hair, that the sovereign declared himself a convert, and the bishop, "extractis e mantica forcipibus, primo regem tum caeteros optimates attondit."[223] ...
— Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman |
