Populares (`favoring the people`, singular popularis) were aristocratic leaders in the late Roman Republic who relied on the people`s assemblies and tribunate to acquire political power. They are regarded in modern scholarship as in opposition to the optimates, who are identified with the conservative interests of a senatorial elite. The popula......
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• (n. pl.) The people or the people`s party, in ancient Rome, as opposed to the optimates.
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The populares, as a Roman political group, was the party of the people in the later stages of the Republic from the days of the brothers Gracchus onwards. Though not an organised party, they worked through and supposedly on behalf of the people, challenging the optimates in the Senate. They were for the extension of citizenship to provincials, for …...
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Pop`u·la'res noun plural [ Latin ] The people or the people's party, in ancient Rome, as opposed to the
optimates .
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populares The people or the people's party, in ancient Rome, as opposed to the optimates. Populares, 'Favoring the people (singular popularis), were aristocratic leaders in the late Roman Republic who tried to use the peoples' assemblies in an effort to break the stranglehold of the nobiles and optimates on political power. Optimates, 'The Best o...
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