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Political institutions of ancient Rome

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Various lists regarding the political institutions of ancient Rome are presented.[1] Each entry in a list is a link to a separate article. Categories included are: constitutions (5), laws (5), and legislatures (7); state offices (28) and office holders (6 lists); political factions (2 + 1 conflict) and social ranks (8). A political glossary (35) of similar construction follows.[2]

Laws

Legislatures

State offices

  • aedile – Office of the Roman Republic
  • censor – Roman magistrate responsible for the census and monitoring public morality
  • comes palatinus – High-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times
  • consul – Political office in ancient Rome
  • decemviri – A 10-man commission in the Roman Republic
  • dictator – Extraordinary magistrate of the Roman Republic
  • dux – Roman title
  • emperor – Ruler of the Roman Empire in imperial period
  • governor
  • imperator – Rank in ancient Rome
  • legatus – High-ranking Roman military officer in the Roman Army,
  • lictor
  • magistrate
  • officium
  • pontifex maximus – Chief high priest in ancient Rome
  • praefectus
  • praetor – Official of the Roman Republic
  • praetor peregrinus
  • princeps senatus
  • procurator
  • promagistrates
  • quaestor
  • rex
  • senator
  • tribune – Elected Roman officials
  • triumviri
  • vicarius
  • vigintisexviri – College of minor magistrates of the Roman Republic

Lists of individual office holders

Political factions

(also see Conflict of the Orders[3])

Social ranks

Glossary of law and politics

  • auctoritas
  • civitas
  • collegia
  • consilium
  • consortium
  • consuetudo
  • contractus
  • contractus litteris
  • curiae
  • cursus honorum – The sequential order of public offices held by politicians in Ancient Rome
  • decreta
  • delectum
  • digesta
  • edicta
  • aequitas
  • fiducia
  • gravitas – An Ancient Roman virtue
  • imperium
  • iudex
  • ius
  • lex
  • libertas
  • mos maiorum – The customs and traditions of ancient Rome
  • municipium
  • obligatio – Course of action that someone is required to take, whether legal or moral
  • patria
  • pietas – An Ancient Roman virtue
  • potestas – A Latin word meaning power or faculty
  • responsa – Body of written legal decisions and rulings
  • provincia – Major Roman administrative territorial entity outside of Italy
  • ratio – Relationship between two numbers of the same kind
  • senatus consultum
  • stipulatio
  • First Triumvirate – Political alliance between Caesar, Crassus and Pompey during the late Roman Republic
  • Second Triumvirate – Ancient Roman political alliance

Miscellaneous

  • Tarpeian Rock – Steep cliff used for executions in ancient Rome

Notes

  1. ^ Cf., History of Rome (disambiguation).
  2. ^ A. Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society 1953).
  3. ^ Patricians versus Plebs.
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