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Res Publica versus Res Privatae.
13-Aug-11The Roman word for their government was the Res Publica, the public property. At every stage of the decline of the Republic the conflict can be interpreted as a desire on the part of the most powerful to privatize what was public, and to convert it into res privatae, private possessions, and so it happened […]