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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
- Roman Senate
- Roman assemblies
- Roman Curia
- Comitia curiata
- Comitia centuriata
- Comitia tributa
- Concilium plebis
Religious Institutions
State offices
- aedile – Office of the Roman Republic
- censor – Roman magistrate responsible for the census and monitoring public morality
- comes – Latin word for companion, Roman court title
- comes palatinus – High-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times
- consul – Political office in ancient Rome
- consularis
- decemviri – 10-man commission in the Roman Republic
- dictator – Extraordinary magistrate of the Roman Republic
- dux – Roman title
- emperor – Ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period
- governor
- imperator – Rank in ancient Rome
- legatus – High-ranking Roman military officer
- legatus Augusti pro praetore
- lictor – Bodyguard and attendant to ancient Roman magistrates
- magistrate
- officium
- pontifex maximus – Chief high priest in ancient Rome
- praefectus
- praepositus sacri cubiculi
- praeses
- praetor – Official of the Roman Republic
- praetor peregrinus
- primicerius
- princeps senatus
- proconsul – Governor of a province in the Roman republic
- procurator
- promagistrates
- quaestor – Public official in ancient Rome
- rector
- rex – Chief magistrate of the Roman Kingdom
- senator
- tribune – Elected Roman officials
- triumviri
- vicarius – Latin word meaning substitute or deputy
- vigintisexviri – College of minor magistrates of the Roman Republic
Lists of individual office holders
- List of Roman kings
- List of Roman Consuls
- List of Roman Emperors
- List of principes senatus
- List of Roman censors
- List of Roman governors of Britain
Political factions
(also see Conflict of the Orders[3])
Social ranks
Glossary of law and politics
- auctoritas – Roman prestige; contrast with power, imperium
- civitas – Roman concept of citizenry as an entity, and by extension the city or province of the citizens
- collegia
- consilium
- consortium – Association of two or more individuals and/or organizations to achieve a common goal
- consuetudo – Legal principle
- contractus
- contractus litteris
- curiae
- cursus honorum – The sequential order of public offices held by politicians in Ancient Rome
- decreta
- delectum – Civil wrong
- digest – Roman law digesta
- edicta
- aequitas – Roman legal concept
- fiducia
- gravitas – Ancient Roman virtue
- imperium – Type of authority in ancient Rome
- iudex
- ius
- lex
- libertas – Roman goddess of liberty
- mos maiorum – Customs and traditions of ancient Rome
- municipium – Latin term for a town or city
- obligatio – Course of action that someone is required to take, whether legal or moral
- patria
- pietas – An Ancient Roman virtue
- potestas – 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 – Alliance between Roman politicians Caesar, Pompey and Crassus
- Second Triumvirate – Roman political alliance (43–32 BC)
See also
- Tarpeian Rock – Steep cliff used for executions in ancient Rome
Notes
- ^ Cf., History of Rome (disambiguation).
- ^ A. Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society 1953).
- ^ Patricians versus Plebs.