rogation

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Meanwhile the unspeakable bigot, Philip, was wasting his time in processions, rogations, and fasts, for the relief of the town, while he stirred no finger to help it in any effective manner.

From Spanish Life in Town and Country by Dawson, William Harbutt

Mention two provisions of the Licinian laws or rogations.

From Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Pennell, Robert Franklin

This was the time when the famous Licinian rogations, by the adoption of which a civil revolution was effected in Rome, were brought forward.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 by Various

The city was now in the hands of Sulpicius and Marius, and the rogations passed into law without opposition, as well as a third, conferring upon Marius the command of the Mithridatic War.

From A Smaller History of Rome by Smith, William, Sir

It is necessary for us to understand this new condition of affairs in the republic before it will be possible to comprehend the rogations of the Gracchi.

From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Stephenson, Andrew