CLASSIC 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Senatus Consultum, Princeps Senatus, Curia Hostilia
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Classics 20- lecture #10- the end of the republic: warlords i. Gloria is the kind of achievement one wins in military battle directing an army. Dignitas is the deposit, growing account where all your gloria goes, also passed hereditarily and builds up. Retired from cursus honorum, returns to farm, significant battle undertaken with the aequi in. 458, roman people thought there was no hope, they go to his farm and he puts on his toga, is informed that he has been selected as dictator, defeats enemy and achieves gloria. Gathers the enemy leadership- send the enemy under the yoke to show roman power and adding to dignitas= lump sum of private and public worth, renounces leadership after 15 days. Res publica: collective and singular governing bodies: assemblies. Comitia centuriata ( sort of like an electoral college)- divisions based on wealth within each class (instituted by servius tullius) that control voting in centuries.
