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Optimates (/ˌɒptɪˈmeɪtiːz/, /ˈɒptɪmeɪts/;
Latin for "best ones"; sg. optimas) and po****res (/ˌpɒpjʊˈlɛəriːz, -jə-, -ˈleɪriːz/;
Latin for "supporters...
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substantial domestic strife,
often anachronistically seen as a
conflict between optimates and po****res,
referring to
conservative and
reformist politicians, respectively...
- on
April 6, 46 BC near
Thapsus (in
modern Tunisia). The
forces of the
Optimates, led by
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Scipio, were
defeated by the forces...
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during the
context of Sulla's
Second Civil War. The
battle pitted the
Optimates under the
command of
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius and
Pompey against...
- 54 and 53 BC),
Pompey switched to the
political faction known as the
optimates—a
conservative faction of the
Roman Senate.
Pompey and
Caesar then began...
- philosopher, orator,
writer and
Academic skeptic, who
tried to
uphold optimate principles during the
political crises that led to the
establishment of...
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Battle of
Ilerda Optimates.
Battle Catalonia,
Spain Victory ⁂ 10 July 48 BC 10 July 48 BC
Battle of
Dyrrhachium (48 BC) .
Optimates Battle Durrës, Albania...
- in 46 BC.
Metellus Scipio and a
number of
influential senators from the
Optimate faction were
fleeing the
disastrous Battle of
Thapsus when
their fleet...
- century BC,
power was
contested between two
groups of aristocrats: the
optimates,
representing the
conservative part of the Senate, and the po****res,...
- aristocracy,
meaning the rule of the most virtuous,
referred to in
Latin as
Optimates because they are
regarded as good and honorable. In his 1602 political...
