burgess-proletariate

Updated: May 8, 2025

Lastly, the distribution of grain formed an official invitation to the whole burgess-proletariate who were destitute of food and indisposed for work to take up their abode in the capital. Anarchy of the Capital The seed sown was bad, and the harvest corresponded.

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

This distribution which consequently excluded the burgesses living out of the capital, and could not but attract to Rome the whole mass of the burgess- proletariate was designed to bring the burgess-proletariate of the capital, which hitherto had mainly depended on the aristocracy, into dependence on the leaders of the movement-party, and thus to supply the new master of the state at once with a body-guard and with a firm majority in the comitia.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

This distribution which consequently excluded the burgesses living out of the capital, and could not but attract to Rome the whole mass of the burgess- proletariate was designed to bring the burgess-proletariate of the capital, which hitherto had mainly depended on the aristocracy, into dependence on the leaders of the movement-party, and thus to supply the new master of the state at once with a body-guard and with a firm majority in the comitia.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book IV : The Revolution

Lastly, the distribution of grain formed an official invitation to the whole burgess-proletariate who were destitute of food and indisposed for work to take up their abode in the capital. Anarchy of the Capital The seed sown was bad, and the harvest corresponded.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)