flamininuses

Updated: May 3, 2025

Any government that deserved the name would of itself have interfered; but the mass of the Roman senate probably with well-meaning credulity regarded the low prices of grain as a real blessing for the people, and the Scipios and Flamininuses had, forsooth, more important things to do to emancipate the Greeks, and to exercise the functions of republican kings.

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

Any government that deserved the name would of itself have interfered; but the mass of the Roman senate probably with well-meaning credulity regarded the low prices of grain as a real blessing for the people, and the Scipios and Flamininuses had, forsooth, more important things to do to emancipate the Greeks, and to exercise the functions of republican kings.

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