Positions

Question 1

augur

Answer 1

public priest
official diviner
interprets auspicesauxiliaries

Question 2

auxiliaries

Answer 2

non-citizen troops

Question 3

censor

Answer 3

conducted a census
review the membership of the senate and the equestrian order
oversaw public morals

Question 4

centurion

Answer 4

commander of a century(80men)

Question 5

civic crown

Answer 5

wreath of oak leaves

awarded for saving the life of a fellow citizen in battle

Question 6

cohort

Answer 6

10 cohorts in a legion

480men

Question 7

Consul

Answer 7

two a year
provincial and army commands
used for dating purposes
N1

Question 8

curule chair

Answer 8

official Roman chair of state
inlaid with ivory
used by the higher magistracies

Question 9

dictator

Answer 9

6 months in times of crisis

Question 10

divus

Answer 10

emperors official deified after their deaths

Question 11

Edict

Answer 11

a formal proclamation issed by a Roman civic official

Question 12

eques

Answer 12

in the early imperial period they began to fill and increasing number of administrative positions and military commands

Question 13

grammaticus

Answer 13

professional teacher of language and literature

Question 14

haruspex

Answer 14

a diviner, interpretation of thunder, omens entrails of sacrificed animals
haruspices plural

Question 15

imperator

Answer 15

commander

one of the imperial titles given to the emperor

Question 16

legion

Answer 16

only roman citizens
10 cohorts (6 centuries)
4,800

Question 17

maiestas

Answer 17

“majesty”
abbreviation for “maiestas minuta” “the diminution of the majesty of the Roman people”
Began to be what offended the emperor or his family

Question 18

military tribune

Answer 18

the senior officers of the Roman army
below legionary commander
6 in a legion

Question 19

ovation

Answer 19

victory procession of a lower grade than a triumph

Question 20

Papian-Poppaean Law

Answer 20

Passed in AD9
modified and supplemented Augustus’ marriage legislation
granted certain benefits and privileges to people with at least three children.

Question 21

patrician

Answer 21

hereditary status

Question 22

pontifex

Answer 22

public priests
public cult, calendar, burial law
the president was the pontifex maximus, always held by the emperor

Question 23

praetor

Answer 23

oversight of judicial matters
in charge of important bureaux
Augustus raised their number to 12 elected a year
provincial governorship was held by men of consular or praetorian rank
N2

Question 24

Prefect of the city

Answer 24

duty of maintaining peace and order in the city of Rome
presided over his own court
had command of the urban cohorts

Question 25

princeps

Answer 25

“first” “first in authority, chief”

Question 26

procurator

Answer 26

“supervisor”
non-senatorial governors of certain provinces
emperor’s financial agents in provinces with senatorial governors

Question 27

quaestor

Answer 27

20 elected each years

served as assistants to senior officialsowest ranked of the major civic officials

Question 28

Senate

Answer 28

all current and former civic officials
advisory, chief policy-making body
600 members limited by Augustus
minimum property qualification of 1,000,000 imposed by Augustus
judicial functions
Acknowledgment by the senate was n theory the precondition of an emperor’s legitimacy
in practice approval of the army or Guard was decisive.

Question 29

tribune of the people

Answer 29

civic official charged with upholding the rights of the people
could veto and proposed legislation he considered harmful to the people
10 a year
sacrosanct- no physical force could be brought against him

Question 30

triumph

Answer 30

major Roman ceremony
general processed with his troops through the city to the temple of Jupiter
became limited to the emperor and their immediate families

Question 31

Troy game

Answer 31

sham fight
young boys on horseback
thought to have been established by Aeneas

Question 32

urban cohorts

Answer 32

police force of Rome under the command of the prefect of the city

Question 33

Vestal virgins

Answer 33

6 priestesses of the goddess Vesta

significant public roles and important privileges

Question 34

aedile

Answer 34

concerned with the upkeep of the city (regulations or markets, oversight of the water and grain supply)
N3

Question 35

Secular Games

Answer 35

much venerated religious ceremony

emperor as chairman to purify/renew the city

Question 36

auctoritas

Answer 36

“influence” “prestige”

acquired through hereditary, personality and Achievment

Question 37

clementia

Answer 37

“clemency”

Question 38

cursus honorum

Answer 38

ladder of office where consulship was the highest

Question 39

Pietas

Answer 39

duty to the gods

Question 40

Praetorian guard

Answer 40

Bodyguard of the emperor

Duty to suppress disturbances in Rome

Question 41

Equestrians

Answer 41

Filled increasing amount of admin and military positions

Property worth 400,000 sesterces

Question 42

Delator

Answer 42

An informer
Private individuals that brought information to the authorities
Delatores were awarded 1/4 of property confiscated from a guilty person, the other 3/4 went to the treasury
Encouraged them to lie, bribe, manufacture evidence

Question 43

Cincian law

Answer 43

Law revived by Augustus

Forbid the acceptance of money or gifts for legal services

Question 44

Client-state/Kingdom

Answer 44

Independent state, friendly relationship with Rome because their rulers often owed their positions to Rome

Question 45

Governor

Answer 45

Proconsul who governed senatorial provinces

Legatus, a governor of an imperial province, under the command of the emperor