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

• Roman law
• List of Roman laws
• Twelve Tables
• Digest of Roman law
• Corpus Juris Civilis

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  – Provincial governors in the Roman Empire
• 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  – Ancient Roman title
• 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

• Optimates
• Populares

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

Social ranks

• Nobles
• Patricians
• Equites
• Plebs
• Adsidui
• Proletarians
• Capite censi
• Slaves

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  – 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  – personal wealth of the Roman emperorPages 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 someone must take
• Palatine  – High-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times
• 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

• Ancient Rome portal

• Tarpeian Rock  – Steep cliff used for executions in ancient Rome

Notes

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