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Optimates (in Latin: the best): conservative political tendency which marked the last century of the Roman Republic, by its opposition to the populares. It was not a political party in the modern sense, but a major cleavage in the political and social struggles of the Romans, allowing the political actors to be confronted with the reformism and the populism of the popular ones within personal and often shifting alliances.
This trend appears under this name in the years 130 BC. J. - C., during the struggles on the agrarian reform of the Gracques. It fades a century later with the end of the Roman Republic and the power of the second triumvirate, with the extinction of power struggles. code
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