Disambiguation evidence for optimates via surface form

"Optimates"


As subject (48)

Triples where this entity appears as subject under the label "Optimates".

Predicate Object
activeInPeriod Late Roman Republic
surface form: late Roman Republic
aimedToPreserve traditional Roman constitution
aimedToPreserve traditional privileges of the Senate
areaOfInfluence Roman courts
areaOfInfluence Roman legislative process
areaOfInfluence provincial governance
contrastedWith popularis politics
country Roman Republic
dissolvedInPeriod end of the Roman Republic
etymology Latin word meaning "the best men"
favoredPolicy limitation of tribunate powers
favoredPolicy senatorial control of magistracies
historicalStatus informal faction rather than formal party
ideology defense of mos maiorum
ideology maintenance of senatorial authority
instanceOf Roman political group
instanceOf conservative faction
instanceOf political faction
language Latin
notableMember Pompey the Great
surface form: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
notableMember Lucius Cornelius Sulla
notableMember Lucius Licinius Lucullus
notableMember Cato the Younger
surface form: Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger
notableMember Cicero
surface form: Marcus Tullius Cicero
notableMember Quintus Lutatius Catulus
opposedFigure Gaius Gracchus
opposedFigure Gaius Marius
opposedFigure Julius Caesar
opposedFigure Tiberius Gracchus
opposedGroup Populares
opposedPolicy debt relief measures
opposedPolicy extension of Roman citizenship to Italian allies
opposedPolicy popular land reforms
politicalBase Senate
politicalBase wealthy landowners
politicalPosition aristocratic
politicalPosition conservative
politicalPosition oligarchic
relatedConflict Caesar’s civil war
surface form: Caesar's civil war
relatedConflict Social War
relatedConflict Sulla’s First Civil War
surface form: Sulla's civil wars
supportedClass Roman aristocracy
supportedClass patrician class
supportedClass senatorial nobility
supportedInstitution Roman Senate
usedPoliticalMethod obstruction of popular assemblies
usedPoliticalMethod senatorial decrees
usedPoliticalMethod use of courts against political enemies