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Niebuhr's lectures on Roman history, Vol. 2 (of 3)

Note 33 — THE INSUBRIANS AND BOIANS VANQUISHED. WAR WITH ANTIOCHUS. WAR WITH THE GALATIANS.

Havilland Le Mesurier Chepmell translation

When we read that Hannibal had changed the ordo judicum, this means without a doubt not the Suffetes, whom the Greeks always call βασιλεῖς, but the hundred or hundred and four of Aristotle, a power which was quite distinct from that of the constituted authorities of state, and was very like the state-inquisition at Venice.

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