CLST 103 Lecture Notes - Aedile, Plebiscitum Ovinium, Roman Forum
15 Jun 2018
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WEEK 4
January 31, 2017
Comitia tribute:
- The voting unit was the tribe
- 35 tribes (the number fixed in 241 BCE)
o 4 tribes from the city
o 31 from rural areas
- Summoned by curule magistrates
- Met in the Forum Romanum (in the comitium)
- Elected Quaestors and curule aediles
- Acted as a court of appeal in no capital cases
Concilium Plebis:
- Only plebeians
- The voting unit was the tribe
- Summoned and presided by a plebeian magistrate
- Met in the forum romanum
- Elected plebeian magistrates, and tribunes of plebs
- Patricians could not attend
- 287 BCE Lex Hortensia plebiscite had force of law
o Law for the state of Rome
Quintus Fabius Maximus 215 BCE
- Asked centuria to go back and redo the election because the person that was chosen was
not suitable
Senate:
- According to tradition—instituted by Romulus
- Senex (pl. sense) = old man
- Senators were often called patres = fathers
- Originally chosen every year by the consuls
- From the end of the 4th cent BCE (Lex Ovinia) – membership given by the censors →
Brought a lifelong membership—then everyone who held a curule magistracy
o Life long membership made them influential
- 81-79 BCE Sulla took away the power of the censors → quaestors at least
o People had to be quaestors before
- Not elected magistrates – not voted by the citizens
- Convened only by the senior magistrate present in Rome
- Senator asked for opinion by rank
- No meetings after nightfall—pediarii = foot soldiers
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Document Summary
35 tribes (the number fixed in 241 bce: 4 tribes from the city, 31 from rural areas. Met in the forum romanum (in the comitium) Acted as a court of appeal in no capital cases. Summoned and presided by a plebeian magistrate. Elected plebeian magistrates, and tribunes of plebs. 287 bce lex hortensia plebiscite had force of law: law for the state of rome. Asked centuria to go back and redo the election because the person that was chosen was not suitable. Senators were often called patres = fathers. Originally chosen every year by the consuls. From the end of the 4th cent bce (lex ovinia) membership given by the censors . Brought a lifelong membership then everyone who held a curule magistracy: life long membership made them influential. 81-79 bce sulla took away the power of the censors quaestors at least: people had to be quaestors before. Not elected magistrates not voted by the citizens.
