| Term | Definition |
|---|
| aedile | magistrate in charge of public works- water, sewers, buildings. regulated markets and public games |
| consul | supreme executive magistrate of the public, 1 year tern, 2 elected per year |
| Dictator | a temporary head of state |
| Praetor | a magistrate who administered justice |
| Quaestor | magistrate in charge of public revenue. |
| Optimates | political party: conservative and representing nobility |
| Patricians | hereditary nobility of early Roman state |
| Populares | political party liberal and representing plebes |
| Plebes | romans without citizenship |
| censor | magistrate who took the census and valued property. gaurdian of public morals, overseer of work on roads |
| Comita Centuriata | voters divided into centuries based on age and propery values: elected higher magistrates; decided between war and peace |
| Comita Curiata | popular assembly. 1 vote per curia, total 30. early form of representation. |
| Emperor | head of empire, first emporor=Agustus |
| Empire | form of gov 27 BCE to 476 AD |
| Equites | Roman knights, the middle rank of social class. |
| Fases | bundle of rods with an ax. symbol of authority |
| Imperium | supreme admin power |
| Rex | First= ROmulus Last=Tarquinus Superbus |
| Lictor | an attendant on the principal magistrates. bodyguard who carried the fauces |
| Monarchy | 753-509 7 kings during this time |
| Republic | 509-27 head of gov=consouls |
| Senate | a rank rather than office at first 100, 900 by Caesar |
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