CLA 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Novus Homo, Auctoritas, Secret Ballot

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2103
• Professor: Antonia Holden

Document Summary

Higher magistrates (in descending order of power: consuls: 2 per year; elected annually by centuriate assembly. Consular imperium (civil and military authority of a magistrate: praetors: 2 per year; elected annually by centuriate assembly. In the late republic, the number was increased: curule (patrician) aediles: 2 per year. Public works, food, games in rome, law and order. Curule is derived from special the curule seat that patricians were allowed to sit on. Aediles paid a lot of money out of pocket: quaestors: 10 per year; elected by tribal assembly. 10 years of military service required to run for quaestor. Assemblies (were usually rigged: curiate assembly (comiia curiata): open to all roman ciizens. Granted imperium (ceremoniously) to consuls and praetors. Based on districts going back to 3 original tribes that romulus was said to have established. Poliically obsolete in republic (they were more symbolic: centuriate assembly (comiia centuriata): open to ciizens eligible for military service (this assembly was very military based)