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Roman Life - Republican Government

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someone who didn't come from a family of aristocratic officeholders
novus homo (new man)
sequence of public offices a successful politician might ascend; quaestor, then praetor, then consul (chief executive). Two consuls were elected each year
cursus honorum
chief magistrates; two ___ were selected each year to serve a 1 year term; ___ alternated control each day; one could not be reelected until ___ 10 years past
consuls
accompanied consuls and carried fasces
lictors
bundle of rods and an axe that symbolized the consuls' absolute power
fasces
judges
praetors
treasurers
quaestors
administrators of games and other public services
aediles
two were elected every 5 years; they served 18 months; they revised the citizenship roll by performing a census and could strike out names if people were behaving inappropriately (thus, out term censorship); they also had responsibility over public building projects, like roads and aquaducts
censor
called in times of severe emergency to assume consular authority; one man was chosen to serve for 6 months
dictator
filled in if both consuls were killed or resigned
consul suffectus
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