CLST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Roman Tribe, Regnum News Agency, Praenomen
28 Sep 2017
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Family: the nomen/clan name was most important and told clan, cognomen told which branch of the clan you belonged to, eg gaius julius caesar, eg publicus cornelius scipio. Roman praenomia and their standard abbreviations: girls received the feminine form of their father"s nomen, as in julia, cornelia, fabia, etc. Julius caesar, q. fabius maximus, m. licinius crassus. King servius tullius altered the division of the populous from locality to wealth and he registered citizens according to class (classis, pl. classes) and to century (centuria) within each class. Initially, romans were divided into curiae or wards (curia =singular, curiae =plural: comitia curiata oldest assembly, comitia centuriata the roman ppl divided into centuries. The republicans wanted power/imperium to be collegial, annual, and accountable. The decision: 2 officials would be elected annually and each would share imperium (they had equal power, originally, these two officials with imperium were called praetors, but soon the word became.
