Libertas as a political idea at Rome during the late Republic and early principate / by Ch. Wirszubski.

"A revised version of a dissertation for the degree of doctor of philosophy submitted to the University of Cambridge in ...1946."

Prolegomena -- Libertas a civic right -- Libertas and civitas -- Libertas populi Romani -- The object of this study -- 1. General characteristics of Libertas -- Libertas leges -- Aequa libertas -- Libertas and dignitas -- The balance of powers -- The rights of the individual -- 2. Civil discord: optimates and populares -- The background of the struggle -- Major points at issue: senatus auctoritas, leges agrariae, popular sovereignity, leges tabellariae, tribunicia potestas, equality fo opportunity for the homines novi, senatus consultum ultimum, potestates extraordinariae -- 3. The decline of the traditional form of government -- The struggle of the Italian for civic rights -- Subversive factors -- Contentio libertatis dignitatisque -- The foundation of freedom in Cicero's theory of government -- Libertas under incipient autocracy -- Freedom versus order and security -- 4. The Augustan principate in relation to libertas -- Pax et princeps -- Libertatis vindex: an outworn phrase -- Res publica restituta in theory and in fact -- 5. Principatus et libertas res olim dissociabiles -- The nature of the problem -- Princeps supra leges -- Libertas senatus -- Thrasea Paetus -- Stoicism and libertas -- Helvidius Priscus -- Clementia -- Optimus princeps -- Adoptio -- Libertas publica and securitas -- What libertas meant to Tacitus -- Freedom under tutelage.