Word List
AUSPICES HARUSPICES
IMPERIUM & AUSPICIUM
MOS MAIORUM (The ways of the elders)
PATERFAMILIAS
CLIENTELA
AMICITIA Range of meanings, often much more firm and formal
than our Friendship
RES PUBLICA POPULUS
GENS
NATIO PRIVATUS
CURSUS HONORUM
DICTATOR
PLEBS PLEBISCITE
TRIBUNE
VETO SACROSANCT
PATRICIAN
NOVUS HOMO, NOVI HOMINES
PRINCEPS
BATTLES OF CANNAE, ZAMA FABIUS CUNCTATOR (The
Delayer)
TESTUDO BALLISTA
DENARIUS
EQUITES (Knights)
FIRMA (= Fixed)
MARIUS SULLA
CRASSUS
POMPEY SPARTACUS
PROSCRIPTION
TRIUMVIRATE
"ALEA JACTA EST" ("The Die is cast") RUBICON
PONTIFEX (MAXIMUS)
PRAETORIAN GUARD CENTURION
HISTORIA ANNAL
MARE
NOSTRUM ie Mediterranean Sea
HYPOCAUST
FLAVIAN EMPERORS TRAJAN HADRIAN
MARCUS AURELIUS
QUOD PRINCIPI PLACET HABET VIGOREM LEGIS = The emperor's will has the
force of Law
HONESTIORES/HUMILIORES
GRESHAM'S LAW: Bad money drives out good
ALAMANNI
DIOCLETIAN CONSTANTINE
DOMINUS/(the) DOMINATE
RAVENNA
SOLIDUS/SOLIDARIUS (=> SOLDIER)
BATTLE OF ADRIANOPLE 378
JACQUES PIRENNE CHARLEMAGNE
PAX ROMANA (The order
established by Rome's role as World's Policeman & Dominator)
DAVID MACAULAY LINDSAY DAVIS
COLONUS (peasant cultivators, originally free, tied to land by
Diocletian)
EPHESUS ARTEMIS
ODEON BOULE DEMOS
IUS CIVILE IUS GENTIUM IUS
NATURALE IUS SCRIPTUM (= law that was written down)
LEGES TWELVE TABLES 450 BC
PRAETOR
SENATUS CONSULTA (S. C.)
RESPONSA
JURISPRUDENTES (or Jurisconsults)
DIGEST INSTITUTES CODEX
NOVELS CORPUS IURIS CIVILIS ("Civil" as in Civil
Law or Civilians just refers to Roman law and the people who teach and
practise it.)
EQUITY/INIQUITY