coterie-considerations

Updated: May 3, 2025

But at the very outset they had made an utter mistake in the choice of the leader; or rather those, who had carried this measure so appropriate in itself, had not taken into account that in the senate all personal questions were decided by the influence of Cethegus and similar coterie-considerations.

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

But at the very outset they had made an utter mistake in the choice of the leader; or rather those, who had carried this measure so appropriate in itself, had not taken into account that in the senate all personal questions were decided by the influence of Cethegus and similar coterie-considerations.

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