coterie-leaders

Updated: May 27, 2025

Still worse than the occurrence itself, to which various parallels might be adduced, was the fact that the perpetrator was not brought to trial; and not only so, but when the censor Cato on account of it erased his name from the roll of the senate, his fellow-senators invited the expelled to resume his senatorial stall in the theatre he was, no doubt, the brother of the liberator of the Greeks, and one of the most powerful coterie-leaders in the senate.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States

Still worse than the occurrence itself, to which various parallels might be adduced, was the fact that the perpetrator was not brought to trial; and not only so, but when the censor Cato on account of it erased his name from the roll of the senate, his fellow-senators invited the expelled to resume his senatorial stall in the theatre he was, no doubt, the brother of the liberator of the Greeks, and one of the most powerful coterie-leaders in the senate.

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