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adlection
A man acquired the right of speaking in the Roman senate on election as quaestor; he became a full member when his name was placed on the senatorial roll. Caesar, dictator or overseer of public ...
aerārium
Derived from aes, means ‘treasury’. The main aerarium of Rome was the aerarium Saturni, so called from the temple below the Capitol, in which it was placed. Here were kept state documents, both ...
archive
A historical document. The plural form is also applied to the place where such documents are housed, e.g. a county record office.
careers
GreekIn Greek‐speaking areas no cursus honorum on the Roman republican model emerged. Though Thucydides (2) credited the Spartan army with a clear hierarchical command structure, promotions and ...
Cassiodorus
Politician, writer, and monk (c. ad 490–c.585). His Bruttian family had a tradition of provincial leadership and official service. He assisted his father, praetorian prefect of Italy, 503–7, under ...
Cornēlius Sulla Fēlix, Lūcius
B. c.138 bc of an old patrician family, after a dissolute youth inherited a fortune from his stepmother, which enabled him to enter the aristocratic career. Chosen by Marius as his quaestor (107) he ...
cursus honorum
The name given to the ladder of (annual) offices that would-be Roman politicians had to climb. After a prescribed period of military service (though this requirement lapsed in the very late ...
Gaius Laelius
(c. 235–c. 160 bc),served in Spain (209–206) and then in Africa (205–202) under P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus, whose close friend and protégé he became. With Scipio's support he became ...
Iulius Agricola, Gnaeus
(ad 40–93),son of a senator from Forum Iulii, was brought up by his mother after his father's execution by Gaius (1). After study at Massalia, he was tribunus militum in Britain during the Boudiccan ...
Iulius Caesar, Lucius
(RE 143)son of (1) and father of (3), hence uncle of M. Antonius (2). quaestor in Asia 77 bc, he was consul 64 and censor, with C. Scribonius Curio ...
Licinius Crassus, Lūcius
outstanding orator and master and model of Cicero, who idealizes him, esp. in his On the Orator, where he is the chief speaker. Born 140 bc, he studied law under Publius Mucius Scaevola and Quintus ...
Licinius Murena, Lucius
(RE 123)descended from several generations of praetors, served under his father in the 80s bc. He was quaestor (c.75), legate (see legati) of L. Licinius Lucullus (2), urban praetor ...
Lilybaeum
The westernmost point of Sicily, was the site of a fruitless attempt at colonization c.580 bc by Cnidians (see nibus) under Pentathlus (Diodorus Siculus 5. 9). A small Carthaginian settlement ...
Lucan
Roman poet (ad 39–65), b. Corduba. His father, Annaeus Mela, was an equestrian and brother of Seneca the Younger. Mela came to Rome when his son was about eight months old. There Lucan received the ...
magister libellorum
(‘master of petitions’), originally a libellis (‘secretary for petitions’), an officer on the Roman emperor's staff whose duty was to deal with written petitions from private persons to the emperor ...
magister Officiorum
The ‘master of the offices’ is first attested in the early 320s ad at the courts of both Constantine I and Licinius; so he may be Diocletianic (see Diocletian). He ...
Mark Antony
(c. 83–30 bc),Roman general and triumvir. A supporter of Julius Caesar, in 43 he was appointed one of the triumvirate after Caesar's murder. Following the battle of Philippi he took charge of the ...
Nicomachus Flavianus, Virius
(c. ad 340–94),Roman senator, who with Vettius Agorius Praetextatus and his close friend and associate Q. Aurelius Symmachus (2) was a champion of the old paganism. After a distinguished ...
parricide
(Lat. parricīdium)was the killing of a par, a close relative. Under the republic the convicted murderer of a close relative was drowned in the sea, tied up in a sack with a dog, cock, ape, and viper. ...
proconsul
A governor of a province in ancient Rome, having much of the authority of a consul.In 1933, the name Proconsul was given to a fossil hominoid primate found in Lower Miocene deposits in East Africa, ...
