Roman Public Life/Index of subjects

by Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge

INDEX OF SUBJECTS^[1]

 

(The references are to the pages)

 

• Administrative functions, of people, 243; of magistrates, 153; of Senate and Princeps, 393; rescripts of Princeps, 379, 380
• Adoption, 17, 32
• Aediles, 208-212, 246, 365, 368; curule, 121, 153, 160, 246, 365; plebeian, 98
• Allies of Rome, origin, 299; status, 305 foll.; federated, 311
• Amalgamation of races, 3
• Amnesty, a prerogative of the Senate, 249
• Anti-senatorial party, 331 foll.
• Appeal, 106, 109, 410; from the king, 64; from the consul, 79, 167; from the dictator, 194; against fines, 170; not applicable to tribunician coercion, 168; nor after decretum ultimum, 279 foll.; courts of appeal under Principate, 382, 390, 412
• Army, 41, 68 foll., 154; auxiliaries, 307; controls appointment of Princeps, 359
• Augurs, 37, 123
• Augury, see Auspices
• Auspices, 36-40, 162-167, 172, 196, 257
• Autonomy of Roman subject states, 325; inconsistent with imperium, 329; its dangers, 324

• Ballot, 258
• Banausia, 185, 400

• Caesar, 141, 142, 198, 201, 235, 248, 249, 314, 315; nature of his dictatorships, 336 foll.; his other powers, 337; a title of the Princeps, 353, 354
• Caesar-worship, 440
• Capital punishment within the walls, see Appeal; without the walls, see Jurisdiction, military; Sempronian law, 281
• Caput, 31, 33; see Rights
• Censorship, 114-116, 122, 153, 198, 216-233, 347, 374, 430
• Census, 347, 430
• Centuriate organisation, 70-78
• Character, a qualification for public rights, 116, 183
• Citizenship, 34, 35, 132-140, 184, 240, 310 foll.; how conferred, 133, 134, 240, 300, 303, 304; complete or partial, 300 foll.; exclusiveness of Roman, 301
• City, growth of, 2, 3
• Clan, 1, 9-17
• Claudian gens, 1, 5, 14, 16
• Clientship, 5, 7, 8, 45
• Codification, 102
• Coercion, a magisterial prerogative, 167-171; of tribunes, 95, 98; relation to jurisdiction, 167; how affected by the ultimum decretum, 279
• Colleagueship, 47, 79, 114, 150, 194, 197, 218, 351
• Colonisation of Latin league, 297, 300; a prerogative of Princeps, 345
• Comitia, in monarchy, 43; in early Republic, 88; in later Republic, 238-260; in Principate, 371 foll.; municipal, 423
• Commerce, its influence on Roman law, 293
• Concilium of the Plebs, 96; to meet tributim, 101; its jurisdiction, 100, 107, 254; its continuity, 149
• Conflict of powers, 172-181
• Constitution, the Roman, 146, 147, 261, 262; effect of foreign wars on, 83, 92, 117, 141, 151, 182
• Consuls, 78, 112, 153, 196-202; plebeian, 121; functions limited by quaestorship, 80; censorship, 114; praetorship, 121; appeal from, 79; under the Principate, 367
• Cooptation of gentes, 13; in priestly colleges, 124; in Senate, 373
• Corn-supply, 210, 411
• Curators, 413 foll.
• Curies, 40, 41, 42, 250
• Custom, 22, 58, 269

• Debt, 90-92, 106, 117, 127
• Decemvirate, 30, 104-108
• Declaration of war, 56, 290, 344, 372, 376
• Delegation, 61, 80, 98, 323, 324, 327, 358, 377, 382, 384, 389, 406
• Dictator, 84, 85, 91-195, 336 foll.
• Dispensation from laws, 276
• Divine right, 45, 77
• Domitian law, 255

• Economic condition of Italy, 90 foll., 332, 425; measures of relief under the Principate, 425
• Edict, 153, 177, 178, 205; provincial, 326; Emperor’s, 342
• Egypt, 435
• Election, not primitive, 46; method of appointing Republican magistrates, 78; of appointing Princeps, 358, 376; a prerogative of the people, 245, 372; procedure, 186, 187, 349; control of Princeps over, 349
• Empire, 316, 427; effect on Roman constitution, 147
• Equites, 41, 73, 224, 402; revision of, 224, 402; formation of an equestrian order, 225, 404, 415; their policy, 334, 402; influence on the Revolution, 333
• Exile, 139, 140

• Family, 18-23, 140, 226; the imperial, 356
• Federal Government, traces of, 295, 311, 336
• Fetiales, 56, 60, 290
• Finance, 213, 286; public finance, 229, 394 foll.; the Budget, 231, 287, 429; finance in allied cities, 307, 424; in provinces, 417, 429; the fiscus, 395, 416
• Fines, 169, 246, 371
• Flamens, 52, 53, 189
• Fleet, 236
• Foreign elements in early Rome, 3, 293; foreign influences, 4, 209
• Foreign policy, controlled by the Senate, 60, 282, 376; by the Princeps, 372, 376
• Forms of law, 56, 87, 128, 205
• Franchise, 241; a gift of the Princeps, 345
• Freedmen, 144-146; freedmen’s vote, 145; freedmen under the Principate, 414
• Germany, administration of, 435
• Gracchus, Gaius, 142, 184, 201, 254; Tiberius, 176, 248

• Hereditary succession, 45, 362

• Imprisonment, 168
• Inauguration, 50
• Infamia, 185; grounds of, 226-228; effects of, 229
• Intercession, 176, 181, 217; not applicable to censors, 217; nor to judices, 177
• International law, 56, 60, 139, 141, 244, 283, 289 foll.
• Interregnum, 47, 48, 83, 147
• Italy, organisation of, 285, 422 foll.; races of, 289

• Jurisdiction, civil, 242; distinction of jus and judicium, 64, 204, 382; exercised by king and judex, 62; magistrate and judex, 121, 204, 205, 382; curule aediles and judex, 210, 211, 369; by personal cognisance of praetor, 382; and of Princeps, 382, 419; by procurators, 416; by consuls and Senate, 385; tribune’s intercession, 178, 371, 383, 384, and Appendix
• Jurisdiction, criminal, 62, 167; exercised by king, 62; by duumviri, 63, 161; consuls, 86, 199; aediles, 211, 369; people, 86, 88, 372; quaestors, 63, 80, 211 foll.; praetors, 207; Senate and consuls, 386, 387; Princeps, 388; praefectus urbi, 408, 424; pr. annonae, 412; pr. vigilum, 413; pr. praetorio, 410, 424; in standing courts, 177, 183, 207, 213, 236, 372, 386, 390; by special commissions, 239, 278; tribune’s intercession, 178, 371
• ⸺ administrative, of consuls, 198; censors, 232
• ⸺ capital, 79, 107, 109, 161; of the people, 245; on appeal from consuls, praetors, quaestors, curule aediles, and tribunes, 246; of Plebs on appeal from tribunes, 100, 107, 161, 168, 246; and plebeian aediles, 246; procedure in judicia populi, 246
• ⸺ domestic, 2
• ⸺ international, 294 foll.
• ⸺ military, 63, 76, 79, 84, 85, 108, 151, 155, 279, 328, 389
• ⸺ municipal, 302, 304, 423
• ⸺ political, 182, 211
• ⸺ provincial, 155, 325, 435

• Land, public, 89, 90, 117, 229, 286, 413; tenure, 8, 15, 65-69, 75, 310; connexion with Servian tribes, 67, 223; in Italy, 307; in provinces, 320, 430
• Latin league, 295 foll.; status of Latins, 308
• Law, religious, 23, 51-57; judge-made, 206; form of a, 242; influence of Roman law on the Empire, 437
• Legates, 434 foll.
• Legislation, procedure in, 256 foll.
• Legislative powers, of Populus, 5, 42, 239, 377; limited by magisterial initiative, 43, 88; by veto, 86, 179; by encroachments of Princeps and Senate, 372, 377 foll.
• ⸺ of Plebs, 96-97, 109, 124, 126
• Licinio-Sextian laws, 120, 130, 216
• Lot, 47, 124, 148, 191, 198, 200, 204, 213, 285, 433

• Magistracy, 84, 150, 152-191, 363 foll.; qualifications, 183; candidature, 187 foll.; minor magistracies, 234 foll., 364
• Manumission, 133, 134
• Marius, 134, 240, 249
• Marriage, 17, 39, 111, 136; intermarriage with foreigners, 295
• Martial law, 279
• Master of the Horse, 196
• Military service, 41, 68-74, 137, 138; conscription, 154; cavalry, 41, 73, 225; pensions, 396
• Monarchy, 44, 45-65, 337
• Municipal administration of Italy, 304, 305, 313 foll.; in the provinces, 437

• Nobility, in later Republic, 129, 265; in Principate, 398 foll.
• Nomination to office, 47, 78, 98, 191, 245, 360

• Pardon, 391
• Patria potestas, 18-23
• Patricians, origin of, 5; possess caput, 31; predominance in early Republic, 86, 87; alliance with plebeian aristocracy, 129 foll.; created by Princeps, 347, 399; special powers of patrician senators, 265, 273, 275
• Plebeians, origin of, 5, 6; generally excluded from clans, 10, 11; members of Populus, 66; gradual rise to power, 92 foll., 111, 120, 126, 127; plebeian law, 17, 28, 29, 104
• Political misdemeanours, 181, 182, 227
• Pomerium, extension of, 342, 345
• Pontifex Maximus, in monarchy, 50, 51; conducts an election of tribunes, 108; in Principate, 350, 351, 397
• Pontifical college, in monarchy, 50 foll.; exponents of fas, 54; of jus, 86; admission of Plebeians, 123; election to, 124, 254
• Praefects, 394, 396, 401, 406
• Praetors, 120, 153, 157, 202-208; under Principate, 364, 368; see Edict
• Priestly orders, 442
• Primogeniture, 22, 130
• Prisoners of war, 141
• Procurators, 414
• Prohibition, magisterial right of, 119, 173-176
• Property, tenure of, 5, 8, 35; Servian classification, 69 foll.; registration by censor, 221-223; tenure by foreigners, 295
• Provinces, 317 foll., 426 foll.; jurisdiction, 155, 325; revenues, 231, 286, 417, 429 foll.; formation, 284, 285; arrangements of Sulla, 201, 251, 322; of Gracchus, 180, 201, 322; of Pompeius, 323; of the Principate, 345, 401, 428
• Public works, 209, 232, 413
• Publilian law, 124, 125, 126, 216

• Quaestors, delegates of king, 63; of consul for jurisdiction, 80, 161, 246; for finance, 81, 155, 178, 394, 432; in the field, 117, 141; functions, 212, 216; no vocatio or prensio, 181; appointment, 81, 102; qualifications, 184, 364, 373; under Principate, 369

• Ramnes, 3, 40, 67, 73
• Religious ideas, 36, 46, 51, 162, 440; their connexion with the clans, 16; international influence of, 56, 289, 291
• Religious sanctions, 54, 99, 109
• Representation, 312, 443
• Rescission of sentences, 248
• Responsibility of magistrates, 181, 217
• Revenues, 229
• Revolution, 332
• Rights, 31, 33, 136, 138 foll., 240, 241; see Caput and Citizenship
• Romanisation of provinces, 436
• Rotation in tenure of power, 198, 199

• Scourging, 168
• Senate, 147, 151, 261, 262; relation to king, 58 foll.; to consuls and other magistrates, 81 foll., 264, 267; to Princeps, 348, 359, 362, 376; powers, 59 foll., 83, 273, 276, 282 foll., 395, 397; control of legislation and elections, 125, 254, 273 foll., 377; procedure, 268 foll., 348; insignia, 265; revision, 219, 263, 347, 374; reform attempted by Sulla, 266, 335, 373; under the Principate, 373; conscripti, 82; senatorial order at Rome, 399, 411; in municipalities, 438.
• Servian organisation, 65 foll., 138, 145
• Servius Tullius, 58, 62, 138
• Slavery, 24 foll., 105, 141 foll.; see Manumission
• Solon, 69, 127
• Sulla, 146, 180, 183, 189, 197, 202, 204, 207, 213, 221, 234, 253, 254, 266

• Taxation, Roman theory of, 319; direct, 320, 431; tithes, 321, 431; see Tribute
• Testaments, 26 foll., 106, 135, 136, 144, 251, 295
• Tities, 3, 40, 67 (priores, posteriores, 73)
• Treaties, 56, 60, 139, 244, 283, 291, 345, 372, 376; commercial, 293
• Tribes, original, 3, 40, 41, 66, 67; Servian, 66 foll.; Republican, 101, 223, 252
• Tribunate, consular, 112-114; military, 364, 373; of the Plebs, 93 foll., 108, 365; inviolability, 99, 345; power of prohibition, 119, 176; intercession, 178 foll., 346, 370; jurisdiction, 168, 169, 371; relation to the Senate, 161, 179, 371, 375; to the Plebs, 96, 124, 126, 346
• Tribunician power possessed by Princeps, 338, 370
• Tribute, from citizens, 41, 75, 137, 138, 222, 303; from subject states, 319 foll., 430
• Triumph, 156-158
• Triumvirate (43 B.C.), 338
• Twelve Tables, 7, 16, 19, 26, 29, 87, 91, 92, 102, 104 foll., 111, 126, 161, 205, 241, 281

• Valerio-Horatian laws, 108 foll., 124, 126, 236
• Varian commission, 175, 248
• Vestals, 52, 53
• Voting: procedure, 258, 259; basis of division, 253; deprivation of right of, 241; freedmen’s vote, 146; rights of new citizens, 312

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1. References to subjects will also be found in the Index of Latin words.