coterie-policy

Updated: June 17, 2025

He accepted the command, and had the magnanimity not to resign it even when they appointed Hanno as his colleague. During this war the patriot party had kept silence; now it spoke out the louder. On the one hand this catastrophe had brought to light the utterly corrupt and pernicious character of the ruling oligarchy, their incapacity, their coterie-policy, their leanings towards the Romans.

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

He accepted the command, and had the magnanimity not to resign it even when they appointed Hanno as his colleague. During this war the patriot party had kept silence; now it spoke out the louder. On the one hand this catastrophe had brought to light the utterly corrupt and pernicious character of the ruling oligarchy, their incapacity, their coterie-policy, their leanings towards the Romans.

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