SPQR

Senatus PopulusQue Romanus ||  || The Senate and Roman People ||  || SPQR ||  || ROME! ||  || Senate, senator popular, populous, population ||  ||
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Ecce Romani Ch1: Cornelia est puella Romana. ||  ||
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[|The SPQR Patriot Attack (article by Paul Krugman, NYTimes)]

One of the books I read during my just-concluded trip was Robert Harris’s [|Imperium] (on my Kindle, of course). Great fun. But what really struck me was the story of the [|Lex Gabinia]. I somehow missed Harris’s [|writeup in the Times], but Harris nailed it: > By the oldest trick in the political book — the whipping up of a panic, in which any dissenting voice could be dismissed as “soft” or even “traitorous” — powers had been ceded by the people that would never be returned. > …. > Those of us who are not Americans can only look on in wonder at the similar ease with which the ancient rights and liberties of the individual are being surrendered in the United States in the wake of 9/11. If Bush had been a tenth as competent as Pompey the Great, our republic might not have survived. || ||
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Magistra Reddick ||