- In the
later Roman Empire,
honestiores and
humiliores emerged as two
broad distinctions of
social and
legal status,
those who had held the
higher offices...
-
those who had
acquired greater honours (
honestiores) and
humbler folk (humiliores). In general,
honestiores were the
members of the
three higher "orders"...
- was of
Berber origin, on the
basis of her name, but as his
family were
honestiores, an
upper class of
citizens known as
honorable men, Augustine's first...
- influential, highest-status
citizens (described as
splendidiores personae or
honestiores), who held a
traditional right to pay
fines when
found guilty of relatively...
-
mines if
lower class (humiliores),
banished to an
island if
upper class (
honestiores), or
executed if the
potion results in death.
Those who
perform bewitching...
- been
interpreted to mean that
respectable women of the
upper classes (
honestiores)
observed the
Veneralia separately from
those of
lesser rank or dubious...
- town
councillors expressly from it, and also free men of high rank (
honestiores) in general. One
highlight during his
reign occurred in 148, with the...
-
harsher punishments for the
lower classes (humiliores) than for the
elite (
honestiores). This is a
theme throughout Carlin A. Barton, The
Sorrows of the Ancient...
- best academic, as socio-legal
status devolved into a
bifurcation of
honestiores and humiliores: the tiny
percentage of the po****ce who had
access to...
-
discriminatory rights and privileges: the
honestiores (more noble) and
humiliores (more base).
Among the
honestiores,
equestrians were
divided into five grades...
