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Various lists regarding the political institutions of ancient Rome are presented. 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.
Laws
Legislatures
- Roman Senate
- Roman assemblies
- Roman Curia
- Comitia curiata
- Comitia centuriata
- Comitia tributa
- Concilium plebis
State offices
- aedile – Office of the Roman Republic
- agentes in rebus – Late Roman Imperial Courier Service
- a rationibus
- censor – Roman magistrate and census administrator
- 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 – Ancient Roman title, given to those who had served as consulsPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
- decemviri – 10-man commission in the Roman Republic
- dictator – Extraordinary magistrate of the Roman Republic
- dux – Roman title
- emperor – Ruler of the Roman Empire
- governor – PositionPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targetsPages displaying short descriptions with no spaces
- imperator – Rank in ancient Rome
- legatus – High-ranking Roman military officerPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
- legatus Augusti pro praetore – position in the Roman EmpirePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
- lictor – Bodyguard and attendant to ancient Roman magistrates
- magistrate – Elected official in ancient RomePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
- officium – Latin word with various meaningsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
- pontifex maximus – Chief high priest in ancient Rome
- praefectus – Prefect in ancient Rome
- praepositus sacri cubiculi – court position in the Byzantine EmpirePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
- praeses – title for the governor of a Roman province in the later Roman empirePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
- praetor – Magistrate of the Roman Republic
- praetor peregrinus – Magistrate of the Roman RepublicPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
- primicerius – profession and public officePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
- princeps – Ancient Roman title
- princeps senatus – First member by precedence of the Roman Senate
- proconsul – Governor of a province in the Roman republic
- procurator – Administrative title in the Roman EmpirePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
- promagistrates – Ancient Roman officePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
- quaestor – Public official in ancient Rome
- rationalis – Roman Empire finance minister role
- rector – Political function in Rome and in medieval republics
- rex – Chief magistrate of the Roman Kingdom
- senator – Political institution in ancient RomePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
- tribune – Elected Roman officials
- triumviri – Commission of three men in ancient RomePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
- 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)
Social ranks
Glossary of law and politics
- aerarium – Public treasury in ancient Rome
- aequitas – Roman legal concept
- auctoritas – Roman prestige; contrast with power, imperium
- civitas – Roman concept of citizenry as an entity united by law
- collegia – Any association in ancient Rome that acted as a legal entityPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
- consilium
- consortium – Association of two or more individuals and/or organizations to achieve a common goal
- consuetudo – Legal principle
- contractus
- contractus litteris
- curiae – Assembly where issues are discussed and decidedPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
- cursus honorum – The sequential order of public offices held by politicians in Ancient Rome
- decreta – Edict or proclamation usually issued by a head of statePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
- delectum – Civil wrong
- digest – Roman law digesta
- edicta – Announcement of a law, often associated with monarchismPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
- fiscus – Roman treasury and derived conceptsPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
- fiducia
- gravitas – Ancient Roman virtue
- imperium – Type of authority in ancient Rome
- iudex – Official who presides over court proceedingsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
- ius – Rights to citizenship virtue in ancient Rome
- lex
- libertas – Roman goddess of liberty
- mos maiorum – Customs and traditions of ancient Rome
- munera – Public works and entertainment paid for by aristocrats of ancient Rome
- municipium – Ancient Roman term for a town or city
- obligatio – Course of action that someone is required to take, whether legal or moral
- patria
- pietas – 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 – 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)
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.