Latin - Roman Flashcards
Perduellio
In the early days of Ancient Rome, perduellio was the term for the capital offense of high treason. It was set down plainly in the Law of the Twelve Tables as follows: The Law of the Twelve Tables orders that he who has stirred up an enemy or who has handed over a citizen to the enemy is to be punished capitally.
Comitia centuriata
The Centuriate Assembly of the Roman Republic was one of the three voting assemblies in the Roman constitution. It was named the Centuriate Assembly as it originally divided Roman citizens into groups of one hundred men by classes.
iudicium
judgment
Verres case
In Verrem is a series of speeches made by Cicero in 70 BC, during the corruption and extortion trial of Gaius Verres, the former governor of Sicily. The speeches, which were concurrent with Cicero’s election to the aedileship, paved the way for Cicero’s public career.
vir bonus dicendi peritus
A good man skilled in the art of speaking. (The Roman definition of an orator.)
fecisse videtur
it appears that he did it
lex repetundarum
The Lex Acilia Repetundarum was a law established in ancient Rome in 123 B.C. It provides for members of the equestrian order as jurors in courts overseeing the senatorial class to prevent corruption abroad.
Tribuni aerarii
Tribuni aerarii, originally treasury officials concerned with the collection of *tributum and its disbursement as military *stipendium. The office disappeared, but the title may have been preserved. It reappears in 70 BCE, for the third of the classes of jurors (after senators and *equites) under the lex Aurelia (see AURELIUS COTTA, L.). These men had the same census qualification as the equites and are often subsumed under that description. It has been argued that they were men of equestrian census not enrolled by the censors in the equestrian centuries, but there is no real evidence on their definition. *Caesar removed them from the juries and the title then disappeared
comperendinatio
feminine noun adjournment of a trial for two days
condemno
guilty
absolvo
not guilty
non liquet
not proven
Vadimonium
In Ancient Rome, a court settlement; a promise secured by bail.
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger
was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny’s uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him.
Pliny the Younger wrote hundreds of letters, of which 247 survive, and which are of great historical value. Some are addressed to reigning emperors or to notables such as the historian Tacitus. Pliny served as an imperial magistrate under Trajan (reigned 98–117),[2] and his letters to Trajan provide one of the few surviving records of the relationship between the imperial office and provincial governors.[3]
Pliny rose through a series of civil and military offices, the cursus honorum. He was a friend of the historian Tacitus and might have employed the biographer Suetonius on his staff. Pliny also came into contact with other well-known men of the period, including the philosophers Artemidorus and Euphrates the Stoic, during his time in Syria.[4]
Centrumviri
was the chancery court (court of equity) of ancient Rome. It was a court of justice dealing with private law (what is referred to in common law systems as civil law).
