Political institutions of ancient Rome

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
agentes in rebus
a rationibus
censor – Roman magistrate and census administrator
comes
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
dux – Roman title
emperor – Ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period
governor – Position
imperator – Rank in ancient Rome
legatus
legatus Augusti pro praetore
lictor – Bodyguard and attendant to ancient Roman magistrates
magistrate – Elected official in ancient Rome
officium – Latin word with various meanings
pontifex maximus – Chief high priest in ancient Rome
praefectus – Prefect in ancient Rome
praepositus sacri cubiculi
praeses
praetor – Magistrate of the Roman Republic
praetor peregrinus – Magistrate of the Roman Republic
primicerius
princeps – Ancient Roman title
princeps senatus – First member by precedence of the Roman Senate
proconsul
procurator – Administrative title in the Roman Empire
promagistrates
quaestor – Public official in ancient Rome
rationalis
rector – Political function in Rome and in medieval republics
rex – Chief magistrate of the Roman Kingdom
senator – Political institution in ancient Rome
tribune – Elected Roman officials
triumviri
vicarius
vigintisexviri

Lists of individual office holders

Political factions

(also see Conflict of the Orders^[3])

Social ranks

Glossary of law and politics

aerarium
aequitas – Roman legal concept
auctoritas
civitas – Roman concept of citizenry as an entity united by law
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
digesta
edicta
fiscus
fiducia
gravitas
imperium – Type of authority in ancient Rome
iudex
ius – Rights to citizenship virtue in ancient Rome
lex
libertas – Roman goddess of liberty
mos maiorum
munera – Public works and entertainment paid for by aristocrats of ancient Rome
municipium
obligatio – Course of action that someone is required to take, whether legal or moral
patria
pietas – Ancient Roman virtue
potestas
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 – Resolution of the ancient Roman Senate
stipulatio
First Triumvirate – Alliance between Roman politicians Caesar, Pompey and Crassus
Second Triumvirate – Roman political organisation (43–32 BC)

Notes

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

[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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