A freeman heavily in debt, and facing the threat of the punishment of being sold, would approach a wealthier man or chief with a plea to pay of his debts ‘ while I sit on your lap ’.

To set the plan in motion, Gaius Cornelius and Lucius Vargunteius were to assassinate Cicero early in the morning on November 7, 63 BC, but Quintus Curius, a senator, who would eventually become one of Cicero's chief informants warned Cicero of the threat through his mistress Fulvia.

The British tribes, although previously at war with one another, band together to face the Roman threat with Cassivellaunus as their commander in chief.

The report included much of the same tone and opinions held in the Washington Society address, except that, uncharacteristically for its chief architect, it alluded to the threat of secession saying, " If a separation of the states shall ever take place, it will be, on some occasion, when one portion of the country undertakes to control, to regulate, and to sacrifice the interest of another.

It was captured by the Nazgûl in 2002 and remained the chief threat to Minas Tirith, until it was destroyed shortly after the final defeat of Sauron.

Because of the political problems of Syracuse and the threat from Sparta, a group of Syracusans sent an appeal for help to Corinth which reached Corinth in 344 BCE Corinth could not refuse help, though her chief citizens declined the responsibility of attempting to establish a settled government in factious and turbulent Syracuse.

When the annual party leadership election was held on 25 November, this threat was not conveyed to the members whom Parnell managed to control, until they loyally re-elected their ' chief ' in his office.

Henry VIII did not see the need to reform the government of Wales at the beginning of his reign, but gradually he perceived a threat from some of the remaining Marcher lords and therefore instructed his chief administrator, Thomas Cromwell, to seek a solution.

They considered Britain as the center of aristocracy and the chief threat to the United States ' republican values.

The chief threat to most of the endangered species is loss of tropical rainforest habitat, though some populations are further imperiled by hunting for bushmeat.

The Czechoslovakian women's team had a very long tradition of success and was the chief threat to the dominance of the Soviet women's team for decades.

Trenchard judged that the chief threat to his service came from the new First Sea Lord, Admiral Beatty.

Geoffrey of Meulan, one of Henry's chief advisors, was excommunicated, but the threat of excommunicating the king remained unplayed.

Furthermore, in March 1974, representatives of the police forces of Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia met with Alberto Villar, deputy chief of the Argentine Federal Police and co-founder of the Triple A death squad, to implement cooperation guidelines in order to destroy the " subversive " threat represented by the presence of thousands of political exilees in Argentina.

After a few months, this estate was claimed by a Māori chief, Taringakuri, which led to years of uncertainty and threat.

Among other evidence, Dodd cited a cable sent by Negroponte, in 1985, that made it clear that Negroponte was aware of the threat of " future human rights abuses " by " secret operating cells " left over by General Gustavo Álvarez Martinez, the chief of the Honduran armed forces, after he was forcibly removed from his post by fellow military commanders in 1984. The cables reveal that Negroponte repeatedly urged reform of the Honduran criminal code and justice system to replace arbitrary measures taken by the Honduran government after events such as the blowing up of the nation's main power plant at Tegucigalpa and the kidnapping of the entire business establishment of San Pedro Sula, the second largest city, in 1982.

For the first century of the colony's existence, the chief threat to the inhabitants of New France came from the Iroquois Confederacy, and particularly from the eastern-most Mohawks.

The state itself was led by German nationalism and Bismarck viewed Poles as one of the chief threat to German power ; as he declared The Polish question is to us a question of life and death and wanted Polish nation to disappear in private going as far as expressing his wish to exterminate Poles As a result the Polish population faced economic, religious and political discrimination the Germanisation of their territories was promoted and in places where Poles and Germans lived a virtual apartheid existed.

Captain Tankersley was killed while Honor was over a week away on Grayson, but North Hollow was deliberately betrayed by his own security chief and direct action specialist, a woman whom he held to his service under threat of blackmail — a family specialty that gave the Earldom much political power for it held the much feared ' North Hollow Files ' with devastating dirt on many Manticorian politicians.

In the 1920s, many in the leadership of Weimar Germany, humiliated by the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles imposed after their defeat in the First World War ( especially General Hans von Seeckt, chief of the Reichswehr ), were interested in cooperation with the Soviet Union, both in order to avert any threat from the Second Polish Republic, backed by the French Third Republic, and to prevent any possible Soviet-British alliance.

He became once more chief of national police ( Shahrbani ) in 1949, when Mohammad Reza Shah appointed him as chief of the Shahrbani Police Forces, in order to counter the growing threat of Sepahbod Haj Ali Razmara.

The Prometheism political strategy conceived by Polish chief of state Józef Piłsudski sought to weaken the threat of Tsarist Russia and later the Soviet Union by facilitating its breakup into its constituent parts.

Wang Lun is selfish and he fears that Lin Chong will become a threat to his position as chief.

He took vows as a canon regular at the canonry of Stein, in South Holland, and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood at about the age of 25, but he never seemed to have actively worked as a priest for a longer time, and certain tenets of life in Religious Orders were among the chief objects of his attack in his lifelong assault upon Church excesses.

Directly in the centre of one of them I particularly noticed a very large dog, sitting in front of the door or entrance to his burrow, and by his own actions and those of his neighbors it really seemed as though he was the president, mayor, or chief — at all events, he was the ' big dog ' of the place.

The chief grievances which Kapp and his followers had against the government were ( a ) that the national assembly, which had been elected to serve temporarily, was beginning to act as a permanent Reichstag ; ( b ) that it seemed this assembly might revise the constitution with respect to the election of the President of the Republic so that the Reichstag, rather than the electorate of the country, was responsible for the President's election.

Much to his father's dismay, his chief preoccupation seemed to be frequenting salons and engaging in conversation.

Prior vacancies in the office had been filled by the incumbent assistant chief, and Arnold's appointment to succeed Westover seemed automatic since he was well-qualified.

The Mycenaeans, according to archaeological discoveries, seemed to treat Poseidon as the chief deity.

Domnus and the council declined to proceed in the absence of the chief witnesses, and the case seemed to be postponed indefinitely.

In 1714, following a long disagreement between the ministers, Anne dismissed Harley ; the arch-Tory Bolingbroke became in effect Anne's chief minister, and Tory power seemed to be at its zenith.

As Editor Bill said yesterday in an e-mail note to the staff, Judy seemed to have ' misled ' the Washington bureau chief, Phil Taubman, about the extent of her involvement in the Valerie Plame leak case.

:" Man, however, had in former days considered this as a remote or unlikely event ; for a Norwegian chief of other times, or, as other accounts said, and as the name of Jarlshof seemed to imply an ancient Earl of the Orkneys had elected this neck of land as the place for establishing a mansion-house.

In government, Fagerholm was one of the chief executors of the neutralist Scandinavia-orientation, that in the 1930s increasingly had been seen as Finland's deliverance from the danger of Russian expansionism – both by Conservatives and Socialists – a danger that seemed to have increased with fierce Soviet anti-Capitalist sentiments being met with equally fierce anti-Bolshevist sentiments in Finland.

Under these circumstances, the important counselor White Eyes seemed to assume the role of chief as much, if not more, than Gelelemend.

I advanced to show I supposed them to be, and soon fell in with one who seemed to be a chief.

The Barry family recorded that they were upset by this encounter because they considered the chief chaplain “ the nearest thing to a friend that Kevin would see before his death, and he seemed so alien .”

He surprisingly ceded the position of Surrey's chief bowler to the emergent William Lockwood who took full advantage of Oval pitches being extremely fiery and untrue due to reconditioning of the square, but it still seemed as though Lohmann had many years of county and Test cricket ahead of him.

No-one seemed to have imagined that the tenants in chief of the crown were set free to alienate without royal license.

Ratu Mara had announced his intention not to contest the election that was to be held in 1992, but his wife, Ro Lady Lala Mara, a chief in her own right as the Roko Tui Dreketi, or Paramount Chief of Burebasaga, one of three hierarchies to which all Fijian chiefs belong in the House of Chiefs, seemed a natural choice to lead a new party as the successor to his.

By the end of the Revolution, Martin's place as chief colonial Indian agent seemed secure.

A similar likeness could be drawn with Hericon, the chief rival in power to the Trigans, whose appearance seemed to mirror that of elements of the Byzantine empire, and the Persian Empire.

She and Nicholas begin to connect after rescuing Euripides from Earth she was trained by gorm to take his place as chief councel to the Outer Dimension and seemed to have a relationship with gorm.

In July, it seemed PML-Zia and PML-Q would reunite following a meeting between Ijaz and Q-League chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, but in November, PML-Z instead ' assimilated ' with other Muslim League factions in a loose alliance called Muttahida Muslim League, brokered by senior politicians Pir Pagara and Zafarullah Khan Jamali.