Political institutions of ancient Rome
Various lists regarding the political institutions of ancient Rome are presented.[1] Each entry in a list is a link to a separate article. Categories included are: constitutions (5), laws (5), and legislatures (7); state offices (28) and office holders (6 lists); political factions (2 + 1 conflict) and social ranks (8). A political glossary (35) of similar construction follows.[2]
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| Public law | 
| Senatus consultum ultimum | 
| Titles and honours | 
Legislatures
    
    
State offices
    
- aedile – Office of the Roman Republic
 - censor – Roman magistrate and census administrator
 - comes – Latin word for companion, Roman court title
 - comes palatinus – High-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times
 - consul – Political office in ancient Rome
 - consularis – Ancient Roman title, given to those who had served as consuls
 - decemviri – 10-man commission in the Roman Republic
 - dictator – Extraordinary magistrate of the Roman Republic
 - dux – Roman title
 - emperor – Ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period
 - governor – Position
 - imperator – Rank in ancient Rome
 - legatus – High-ranking Roman military officer
 - legatus Augusti pro praetore – position in the Roman Empire
 - lictor – Bodyguard and attendant to ancient Roman magistrates
 - magistrate – Elected official in Ancient Rome
 - officium – duties ancient Rome
 - pontifex maximus – Chief high priest in ancient Rome
 - praefectus – Prefect in ancient Rome
 - praepositus sacri cubiculi – court position in the Byzantine Empire
 - praeses – title for the governor of a Roman province in the later Roman empire
 - praetor – Official of the Roman Republic
 - praetor peregrinus – Official of the Roman Republic
 - primicerius
 - princeps senatus – First member by precedence of the Roman Senate
 - proconsul – Governor of a province in the Roman republic
 - procurator – Administrative title in the Roman Empire
 - promagistrates – Ancient Roman office
 - quaestor – Public official in ancient Rome
 - rector – political function in Rome and in medieval republics
 - rex – Chief magistrate of the Roman Kingdom
 - senator – Political institution in ancient Rome
 - tribune – Elected Roman officials
 - triumviri
 - vicarius – Latin word meaning substitute or deputy
 - vigintisexviri – College of minor magistrates of the Roman Republic
 
Lists of individual office holders
    
    
Social ranks
    
    
Glossary of law and politics
    
- auctoritas – Roman prestige; contrast with power, imperium
 - civitas – Roman concept of citizenry as an entity united by law
 - collegia – any association in ancient Rome with a legal personality
 - consilium
 - consortium – Association of two or more individuals and/or organizations to achieve a common goal
 - consuetudo – Legal principle
 - contractus
 - contractus litteris
 - curiae – Assembly where issues are discussed and decided.
 - cursus honorum – The sequential order of public offices held by politicians in Ancient Rome
 - decreta – Edict or proclamation usually issued by a head of state
 - delectum – Civil wrong
 - digest – Roman law digesta
 - edicta – Announcement of a law, often associated with monarchism
 - aequitas – Roman legal concept
 - fiducia
 - gravitas – Ancient Roman virtue
 - imperium – Type of authority in ancient Rome
 - iudex – Official who presides over court proceedings
 - ius – Rights to citizenship virtue in ancient Rome
 - lex
 - libertas – Roman goddess of liberty
 - mos maiorum – Customs and traditions of ancient Rome
 - municipium – Ancient Roman term for a town or city
 - obligatio – Course of action that someone is required to take, whether legal or moral
 - patria
 - pietas – Ancient Roman virtue
 - potestas – Latin word meaning power or faculty
 - responsa – Body of written legal decisions and rulings
 - provincia – Major Roman administrative territorial entity outside of Italy
 - ratio – Relationship between two numbers of the same kind
 - senatus consultum – resolution of the ancient Roman Senate
 - stipulatio
 - First Triumvirate – Alliance between Roman politicians Caesar, Pompey and Crassus
 - Second Triumvirate – Roman political organisation (43–32 BC)
 
See also
    
- Tarpeian Rock – Steep cliff used for executions in ancient Rome
 
Notes
    
- Cf., History of Rome (disambiguation).
 - A. Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society 1953).
 - Patricians versus Plebs.
 
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