oracle-machinery

Updated: May 28, 2025

Even leaving out of account that Caesar had too much intellect and too much political tact to decide important questions of state after the oligarchic fashion by a stroke of the oracle-machinery, he could never think of thus formally and legally splitting up the state which he wished to reduce to a level. II. III. Union of the Plebeians II. I. The New Community

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

Even leaving out of account that Caesar had too much intellect and too much political tact to decide important questions of state after the oligarchic fashion by a stroke of the oracle-machinery, he could never think of thus formally and legally splitting up the state which he wished to reduce to a level. II. III. Union of the Plebeians II. I. The New Community

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