Cursus Honorum

Question 1

1 - Quaestor

Answer 1

• min age = 30
• 20 of them
• financial - either in Rome with treasury or in a province. In charge of games

Question 2

2 - Tribune of the plebs

Answer 2

• min age = 30
• power of veto
• 10 elected each year
• in order to become one, you had to be a pleb
• looked after the rights of the common people

Question 3

3 - Aedile

Answer 3

• min age = 36
• 4 of them (2 patrician, 2 plebeian)
• public work; sewers, buildings, temples, roads, food + water supply
• this was an optional position

Question 4

4 - Praetor

Answer 4

• min age = 39
• 6 of them
• In charge of law courts
• pro-praetor =governor in province

Question 5

5 - Consul

Answer 5

• min age = 42
• 2 of them
• ultimate decision making
• could veto other consuls
• proconsul - had ‘imperium’ in law interpreting law + war

Question 6

Dictator

Answer 6

• for crisis
• 6 months only
• 1 person has ‘imperium’

Question 7

Censor

Answer 7

-Every 5 years a census was taken counts of