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Amcitia

Professional friendship, friendship as thechief basis for support for candidates running for office


Beneficia

The benefits received by a client from hispatron


Fides


Good faith, loyalty, reliability and all thatrelates to acting in a good matter

Gravitas


Weight, seriousness and dignity and was animportant value to be associated with someone’s personality and character


Dignitas


Sum of the personal influence that a malecitizen acquired throughout his life


Gratia

Gratitude, gratefulness, thankful, grace


Mos maiorum


The ways of our ancestors, unwritten code of conduct, an adherence to oldrules and mores that formed the basis of Roman society


Nobiles


Terms of social rank with the usual indicationthat a member of a family who had attained the position of consulship at leastonce


Nobilitas


Exclusive circle of patrician anddistinguished plebeian families that arose in the Roman republic towards thebeginning of the 3rd century BC


Novia

Refers to the first man in his family (with nonoble ancestry) to be elected consul


Optimates


The ‘best men’ in Rome, the conservative faction


Ovation

A ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a generalwho had won a victory


Patrician


Upper class of ancient Rome


Patron


leader of a patrician family who agreed to protect anumber of poorer plebeians (clients) in return for assistance in public andprivate life

Pietas


Duty ordevotion to family, the state, and to gods


Plebeian


Lower class – commoners


Pontifex Maximus


Head of all state priests elected for life bythe people


Pontifices


Member of the Pontifical College – highpriests


Populares

Roman political group/mentality, usedassemblies and the tribunate rather than the senate to further their aims


Principes


Spearmen and later swordsmen in the late RomanRepublic


Senate


incredibly long lasting political institution


SenatusConsultum

Constituted "advice" fromthe Senate to a magistrate. While these advices did not hold legal force, theyusually were obeyed in practice.


Slave

Generally people captured during or after a battle,and sent back to Rome to be sold.

SQPR

The Senate and People of Rome, referring to the government of the ancient Roman Republic


Tribe

The first Roman tribes were probably ethnic in origin and consisted of theTitienses (Tities), Ramnenses (Ramnes), and Luceres.


Tribune


Open only to plebeians and was thestarting point for a plebeian career in public life


Triumph


A public ceremony held to celebrate a Roman general’svictory

Triumvirate


A coalition of three rulers for jointadministration

Veterans

A person who has had long service in the army


Vestal Virgins


The Vestal Virgins were priestesses of Vesta, goddessof the heart