Aequabilitas in Cicero's Political Theory, and the Greek Tradition of Proportional Justice

Classical Quarterly 23 (02):285- (1973)
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This inquiry starts from two passages in book 1 of Cicero's de Re Publica, both concerned with the failings of democracy as a political form. The first occurs in Scipio Aemilianus' opening criticism of the three unmixed constitutions. The weakness of democracy is that cum omnia per populum geruntur quamvis iustum atque moderatum, tamen ipsa aequabilitas est iniqua, cum habet nullos gradus dignitatis

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On the interpretation of Cicero, De Republica.Andrew R. Dyck - 1998 - Classical Quarterly 48 (2):564-568.
On the interpretation of Cicero, De Republica.Andrew R. Dyck - 1998 - Classical Quarterly 48 (02):564-.

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