Assertion: senate | /r/CapableOf | act as a town council
Facets:
value: for rome
type: LOCATION
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: A great number of them failed to leave their estates to attend meetings, and the Senate often acted—as it had in the early days of the Republic—merely as a town council for Rome, under the chairmanship of the prefect of the city.