CLAS 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter Senatus: Praetor, Bacchanalia, Roman Citizenship
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Senate recommended that edits were to be read out in the city of. Forbidding initiates of the bacchic rites to assemble in order to celebrate the rites. The senate of rome could make policy for the whole empire but its decisions were usually referred to as advice or recommendations instead of laws. If someone says it is necessary to do this they have to go to the praetor urbanus at rome. They have to share their arguments and the senate will make a decision on the subject as long as there are no less than 100 senators when this topic is being discussed. No roman citizen or latin or an ally is allowed to be associated with bacchant women unless he has talked to the praetor urbanus who can make a decision on the topic but there needs to be. No establishment of a common fund common fund.