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These are men of the ordo senatorius; of the equites proper, the men who dealt rather in lending than borrowing, we have not such explicit accounts, because they were not in the same degree before the public.

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

At the top of the social order was the governing class, or _ordo senatorius_: then came the _ordo equester_, comprising all the men of business, bankers, money-lenders, and merchants (_negotiatores_) or contractors for the raising of taxes and many other purposes (_publicani_).

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

It was in this period of the great wars, so unwholesome and perilous economically, that the men of business, as defined at the beginning of this chapter -- the men of capital outside the ordo senatorius -- first rose to real importance.

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

To the senatorius ordo, which will be dealt with in the next chapter, belonged all senators, and all sons of senators whether or no they had as yet been elected to the quaestorship, which after Sulla was the magistracy qualifying for the senate.

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

Whilst replying, as ever courteously -- for in the look and bearing of Maximus there was that _senatorius decor_ which Pliny noted in a great Roman of another time -- his straining eyes seemed to descry a sail in the quarter he continually watched.

Veranilda George Gissing 1880

The "senatorius decor" seemed a phrase coined for him.

My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"Aciliano plurimum vigoris et industriae quanquam in maxima verecundia: est illi facies liberalis, multo sanguine, multo rubore, suffusa: est ingenua totius corporis pulchritudo et quidam senatorius decor, quae ego nequaquam arbitror negligenda: debet enim hoc castitati puellarum quasi praemium dari."

Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer Richard Steele 1700

_i. e._ a place in the _ordo senatorius_, which was followed by the

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

"senatorius decor" seemed a phrase coined for him.

My Novel — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838