HI202 September 27, 2004: Terminology

Twelve Tables and the decemviri: 451-450 BCE

• Comitia Centuriata
• Patria potestas
• Marriage cum manu (vs. sine manu)

Consuls

• Imperium
• Toga praetexta, fasces, lictores, sella curulis
• 444-367 BCE: 55 tribuni militum consulari potestate

Censors

Licinio-Sextian Law of 376 BCE (lex Licinia Sextia)

Temple of Ceres on the Aventine Hill

Praetors

• praetor’s edict

Prorogatio

Senate

• Curule magistracies (consul, praetor, curule aedile)
• Later: plebeian aediles, plebeian tribunes (sacrosanctitas)

Secessio

Concilium Plebis; plebiscita; veto

Dictator; magister equitum

Comitia curiata

Comitia tributa

Comitia centuriata

• Legions
• 60 centuries of 100 men each
• 20 cohorts of 300 men each (3 centuries) + light-armed troops; each cohort had
• 1 century = hastati
• 1 century = principes
• 1 century = triarii
• 60 velites
• Classes:
• 18 centuries of equites; equo publico
• 1^st classis: 80 centuries (40 seniores 46-60, 40 iuniores 17-45)
• 2^nd – 4^th classis: 20 centuries each
• 5^th classis: 30 centuries
• one classis of proletarii (proles)
• 3?4? classes of unarmed men – armorers, smiths, trumpeters
• TOTAL: 193 or 194 centuries
• Campus Martius
• Patrum auctoritas

Pontifex maximus; pontifices; augures; rex sacrorum

Maior potestas; tributum; nexum

Lex Valeria Horatia

Lex Canuleia

Appius Claudius

Provocatio

Lex Hortensia

Nobiles

Princeps Senatus

Polybius