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Acilius Glabrio, Manius
(RE 37)grandson of (1), son-in-law of a Scaevola (probably Q. Mucius Scaevola (1)), as tribune 122 bc passed a repetundae law providing for equites as jurors and making procedure ...
Aemilius Scaurus, Marcus
(RE 141)son of M. Aemilius Scaurus (1) and Caecilia Metella (1), hence stepson of L. Cornelius Sulla. Quaestor under Pompey c.65 bc, he intervened in Judaea and Nabataea, chiefly ...
ampliatio
Means ‘a further hearing’ and is known to us as a feature of procedure in some quaestiones and trials before recuperatores under the republic. When a certain proportion of the ...
Antonius ‘Hybrida’, Gaius
(RE 19)son of M. Antonius (1). An officer under Sulla in Greece and rewarded in his proscriptions, he was prosecuted and escaped conviction by appealing to the tribunes. The ...
Caelius Rufus, Marcus
Born (probably) 88 or 87 bc at Interamnia (mod. Teramo), son of an eques or knight, did his tirocinium fori (apprenticeship to public life) under Cicero and Crassus. As one of a band of upper-class ...
Calpurnius Piso Frugi, Lucius
(RE 96)earned his agnomen (which became hereditary) by his probity. As tribune 149 bc, he set up the first of the quaestiones: a standing committee of senators to hear ...
edicts of Cyrēnē
Five edicts of Augustus preserved in a Greek inscription from Cyrene. The first four belong to 7–6 bc and apply to the public (i.e. senetorial) province of Crete and Cyrene alone; the fifth, which ...
equites
RepublicIn the republic 1,800 cavalry (equites) had their horses supplied and maintained by the state (equites equō pūblicō), and in the centuriate assembly (see comitia) they formed eighteen ...
Gaius Verres
Quaestor in 84 bc. As legate of Cornēlius Dolabella in Cilicia, he helped him plunder his province and Asia, but on their return helped to secure his conviction. As urban praetor (74), he is charged ...
lex
It is clear from Priscian, Institutes 2. 49–50=2. 75 Keil, that the concept of leges frumentariae, agrariae, nummariae, and so on (see below) was familiar to the Romans. We discuss ...
maiestas
(lit. ‘greaterness’), used as an abbreviation for the crime maiestas minūta populī Rōmānī, ‘the diminution of the majesty of the Roman people’. This charge was first introduced by Appuleius ...
Manilius Gaius
(RE 10, cf. 23),elected tribune (see tribuni plebis) for 66 bc, hence entering office on 10 December 67, on the last day of 67 carried a law distributing freedmen ...
Manius Aquillius
(RE 11)son of (1), chief legate of C. Marius (1) against the Cimbri, and his colleague as consul 101 bc. He crushed the slave revolt in Sicily, personally killing ...
Manius Aquillius
(RE 10)consul 129 bc, succeeded M. Perperna (1) in Asia and completed the war against the allies of Aristonicus (1). With the help of a senatorial commission he delimited ...
Marcus Fonteius
(RE 12)began his career under L. Cornelius Cinna (1), but joined Sulla. He served in Spain and Macedonia and after his praetorship governed Transalpine Gaul (probably 74–72 bc), enthusiastically ...
optimātēs, populārēs
Romans seem from an early time to have used words for ‘good’ (bonus, sup. optimus) to denote high birth and social standing, as well as moral excellence, qualities the upper class regarded as ...
Porcius Cato, Gaius
(RE 5)grandson of M. Porcius Cato (1) and of L. Aemilius Paullus (2), was a friend of Ti. Sempronius Gracchus (3), but seems to have turned against him (see ...
publican
In ancient Roman and biblical times, a collector or farmer of taxes. The word is used chiefly in biblical translations and allusions, as in reference to Matthew 11:9, ‘Why eateth your Master with ...
quaestiōnēs
Roman tribunals of inquiry into crimes, later standing courts. By the 2nd cent. bc some political crimes and instances of mass law‐breaking with serious public implications came to be handed over to ...
quaestor
Financial quaestors were at first appointed by the consuls, one by each; after 447 bc they were elected by the tribal assembly. Two were added when plebeians were admitted (421), to administer the ...
