bludgeon-men

Updated: May 22, 2025

Certainly their lord and master was resolved to employ this favourable episode in order not merely to set aside Milo, but also to seize the dictatorship; he wished, however, to receive it not from a mob of bludgeon-men, but from the senate.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy