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12 Cards in this Set
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quaestor
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lowest rung on ladder
- age 31 - financial officer - elected by comitia populi tributa - senate after 1 term |
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aedile
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- age 36
- public building officer - street, traffic - water supply - exact fines - public games - archives |
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tribune of the plebs
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- defends properties and lives of plebians
- 10 elected annually - can only elected once - elected by the concilium plebis - veto laws, senate, senatus consultum |
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praetor
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- imperium
- 8 elected annually - 6 lictores - elected by comitia centuriata - defense of Rome - govern province after 1 term |
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consul
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- imperium
- two elected annually - elected by comitia centuriata - 12 lictores - lead armies - foreign policy - govern province after one term - eponymous year |
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Senate Duties
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- advise magistrates
- invalidate laws - advise - criticize - curule chair |
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Senate Meetings
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- summoned by imperium or tribunes
- meet in consecrated place |
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Senate Info
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- open to ex-quaestors and above
- no freedmen/sons - life term - censor can kick you out - special red shoes - latus clavus |
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latus clavus
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purple band worn by senators
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imperium
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- prerogative
- command army - auspices - free from lawsuits - life & death - lictores |
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lictores
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attendants who proceed in single files lines from undistinguished families to announce person
- carry fasces - toga in Rome - red outside of Rome |
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fasces
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symbol of magistration authority
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