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Definition of Optimates

Optimates
Optimates Op`ti*ma"tes, n. pl. [L. See Optimate.] The nobility or aristocracy of ancient Rome, as opposed to the populares.
Optimate
Optimate Op"ti*mate, a. [L. optimas, -atis, adj., optimates, n. pl., the adherents of the best men, the aristocrats, fr. optimus the best.] Of or pertaining to the nobility or aristocracy. [R.] -- n. A nobleman or aristocrat; a chief man in a state or city. [R.] --Chapman.

Meaning of Optimates from wikipedia

- (1974) rejected both po****res and optimates, saying "such labels obscure rather than enlighten" and arguing that optimates was used not as a political label...
- the Optimates under Pompey at Pharsalus. Pompey then fled to Egypt, where to Caesar's consternation, Pompey was ********inated. The remaining Optimates, not...
- substantial domestic strife, often anachronistically seen as a conflict between optimates and po****res, referring to conservative and reformist politicians, respectively...
- 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...
- defiance of the Senate and began his long civil war against Pompey and the Optimates. The phrase, either in the original Latin or in translation, is used in...
- 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...
- Caesar during the resulting civil war between Caesar and the conservative Optimates faction of the senate, whose legions were commanded by Pompey. Legio XIII...
- SacriportoFought between the Optimates under Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix and the Po****res under Gaius Marius the Younger, Optimate victory. First Battle of...
- change driven by civil warfare between radical po****res and conservative optimates, the decay of political institutions, and the actions of ambitious men...
- Imperator Princeps senatus Pontifex maximus Augustus Caesar Tetrarch Optimates and po****res Province Magistrates Military History Borders Establishment...