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From the choice of the people there came only the "Ten-men" for procedure affecting freedom. Sullan -Quaestiones- Sulla's leading reforms were of a threefold character. First, he very considerably increased the number of the jury-courts.
Each party had a right to challenge a certain number, and the verdict was decided by a majority of votes. At first the judices were chosen from the Senate, and afterwards from the Equestrians, and then again from both orders. But in process of time the quaestiones perpetuae gave place to imperial magistrates. The accused defended himself in person or by counsel.
The form in which this proposal is stated by our authority, would lead us to suppose that the courts to be rendered appellable were those constituted under standing laws. The chief of these quaestiones or judicia publica was the court which tried cases for extortion, established in the first instance by a Lex Calpurnia, and possibly reconstituted before this epoch by a Junian law.
V. IV. Pompeius Take the Supreme Command against Mithradates IV. VIII. Weak Counterpreparations of the Romans ff. V. II. Egypt not Annexed V. IV. Urban Communities V. III. Renewal of the Censorship IV. VI. Political Projects of Marius IV. X. Co-optation Restored in the Priestly Colleges IV. VII. The Sulpician Laws IV. X. Permanent and Special -Quaestiones- IV. VI. And Overpowered
The latter is described by a series of ideographs, "herd" and "to prosper." Is there perhaps a reference to cows giving birth to calves in this month, the early spring? For another, but improbable, explanation, see Babylonian and Oriental Record, iv. 37. Lotz, Quaestiones de Historia Sabbati, pp. 27-29. Sin, Shamash, and Ramman. See pp. 108, 163.
But chance had lately presented the opportunity of making the interesting experiment of assimilating criminal jurisdiction in some of its branches to that of the civil courts. The president and jurors of one of the newly established quaestiones formed as isolated a group as the judex of civil justice with his assessors, or the greater panels of Centumvirs and Decemvirs.
The vast amphitheatre within which the battle is fought, with the whole heavens for its roof, is coextensive with civilization itself. The scene in that great Flavian Amphitheatre, the famous Colosseum, is a faint type of what we are witnessing; but that is not without its lesson. Tusculanae Quaestiones, Lib. II. Cap. LX., Vol. A common ferocity ruled the scene.
The assertion, for instance, that the quaestors were nominated in the regal period by the burgesses, not by the king, is as certainly erroneous as it bears on its face the impress of a partisan character. IV. XII. Course of Literature and Rhetoric IV. XII. Course of Literature and Rhetoric IV. XII. Course of Literature and Rhetoric IV. X. Permanent and Special -Quaestiones-
Although I too have little skill in it, I believe that if we had hitherto done, and should henceforth do more of it, Christendom would have reaped no small advantage, and have been more benefited by this than by the great, deep books and quaestiones , which are used only in the schools, among the learned. Then, too, I have never forced or begged any one to hear me, or to read my sermons.
From the choice of the people there came only the "Ten-men" for procedure affecting freedom. Sullan -Quaestiones- Sulla's leading reforms were of a threefold character. First, he very considerably increased the number of the jury-courts.
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