The precise signification of the word popularis has long been a problem to historians of late Republican Rome. Not only is the ancient evidence limited in scope and very variable in nature, but the relationship between arty one usage of popularis and its own particular context is generally overlooked by modern scholars. The question of who populares are is only contingent upon the question of primary importance, namely how the word is used.
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