INDEX.
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adlectio, 11; inter consulares, 270.
adoption, 2, 11.
aediles Ceriales, 270.
aediles, curule instituted, 67-68; enforce Licinian law, 69, 70; claim to seat in senate, 75-76.
— plebeian, 42, 45, 06; custody of senatorial decrees, 57; claim to seat in senate, 201.
—— in charge of festivals, 143; loss of jurisdiction, 206.
Aemilianus, Publius Cornelius Scipio, 136, 138, 159; suspends work of agrarian commission, 165, 182.
Africanus the elder, Publius Cornelius Scipio, proconsul, 126-127, 129; policy, 132; colonies, 132-133; impeached, 135-136.
agnati, 2.
allies of Rome, position of, 100; after second Punic war, 130-131; citizenship of, 167, 174, 188-191.
appeal, 12; first Valerian law concerning, 30, 53; Valerio-Horatian law, 55; third Valerian law, 83, 87; Porcian laws, 133; law of Gaius Gracchus, 169, 231, 239-240, 274, 279-280.
aquae et ignis iateidictio, 210.
aristocracy, the new, origin of, 102; membership, 102-103; privileges and insignia, 103-104; aim, 104; political position, 104-105; statesmanship, 109; see Nobility and Oligarchy.
aiistoczacy of wealth, origin, 116; census, 116; growth, 117, 153; axistocracy of wealth (continued). importance, 129; number in 225 B.C., 117; insignia, 117-118; influ- ence on the goyemment, 153-154; privileges, 154; see Horsemen and Knights.
as, reduction in weight of, 122-123; sextantarius, 122.
assembly, the centuriate, method of voting in, 36; character, 36-37: powers, 37; elects decemvirs, 51; elects censors, 61; reformed by Flaminius, 118-121; method of vot- ing after 220 b.c., 120; importance of, 121; reorganized by Sulla, 195; not allowed to elect consuls, 197; see Centuries.
— the curiate, membership of, 10; procedure, 10-11; powers, 11-12, 35-36; membership during republic, 35, 127; represented by lictors, 156.
— a new popular (ca. 447 B.C.), see Comitia tributa.
— the plebeian, organization of, 45; powers, 45-46; reorganized, 48-49; validity of plebiscites, 57, 74, 83-84; not to meet on the nundinae, 84; becomes the chief legislative body, 156.
assemblies, the popular, powers and influence of, 77, 87-89, 126-127, 155-156; subserviency, 156-157; unsatisfactory as courts, 145; position under Sulla, 200-201; jurisdiction, 201; proceedings published, 236; under Caesar, membership.
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