all done thanks for the link i hadn't actually read that portion before it does still leave some doubts unresolved lower case senate goes against my orthographic gut feeling but i'm sure you know better so i did it your way the one word i haven't tampered with is republic republic as opposed to republican because it should probably be capitalized differently in different uses and this kind of an article is way too hairy for me to untangle those context differences for such a minor thing i also normalized the uneven marc mark antony to mark but thinking back over it maybe it should have been marc