INDEX OF SUBJECTS

(The references are to the pages)

References to subjects will also be found in the Index of Latin words.

Administrative functions, of people, 243;

of magistrates, 153;

of Senate and Princeps, 393;

rescripts of Princeps, 379, 380

Adoption, 17, 32

Aediles, 208-212, 246, 365, 368;

curule, 121, 153, 160, 246, 365;

plebeian, 98

Allies of Rome, origin, 299;

status, 305 foll.;

federated, 311

Amalgamation of races, 3

Amnesty, a prerogative of the Senate, 249

Anti-senatorial party, 331 foll.

Appeal, 106, 109, 410;

from the king, 64;

from the consul, 79, 167;

from the dictator, 194;

against fines, 170;

not applicable to tribunician coercion, 168;

nor after decretum ultimum, 279 foll.;

courts of appeal under Principate, 382, 390, 412

Army, 41, 68 foll., 154;

auxiliaries, 307;

controls appointment of Princeps, 359

Augurs, 37, 123

Augury, see Auspices

Auspices, 36-40, 162-167, 172, 196, 257

Autonomy of Roman subject states, 325;

inconsistent with imperium, 329;

its dangers, 324

Ballot, 258

Banausia, 185, 400

Caesar, 141, 142, 198, 201, 235, 248, 249, 314, 315;

nature of his dictatorships, 336 foll.;

his other powers, 337;

a title of the Princeps, 353, 354

Caesar-worship, 440

Capital punishment within the walls, see Appeal;

without the walls, see Jurisdiction, military;

Sempronian law, 281

Caput, 31, 33; see Rights

Censorship, 114-116, 122, 153, 198, 216-233, 347, 374, 430

Census, 347, 430

Centuriate organisation, 70-78

Character, a qualification for public rights, 116, 183

Citizenship, 34, 35, 132-140, 184, 240, 310 foll.;

how conferred, 133, 134, 240, 300, 303, 304;

complete or partial, 300 foll.;

exclusiveness of Roman, 301

City, growth of, 2, 3

Clan, 1, 9-17

Claudian gens, 1, 5, 14, 16

Clientship, 5, 7, 8, 45

Codification, 102

Coercion, a magisterial prerogative, 167-171;

of tribunes, 95, 98;

relation to jurisdiction, 167;

how affected by the ultimum decretum, 279

Colleagueship, 47, 79, 114, 150, 194, 197, 218, 351

Colonisation of Latin league, 297, 300;

a prerogative of Princeps, 345

Comitia, in monarchy, 43;

in early Republic, 88;

in later Republic, 238-260;

in Principate, 371 foll.;

municipal, 423

Commerce, its influence on Roman law, 293

Concilium of the Plebs, 96;

to meet tributim, 101;

its jurisdiction, 100, 107, 254;

its continuity, 149

Conflict of powers, 172-181

Constitution, the Roman, 146, 147, 261, 262;

effect of foreign wars on, 83, 92, 117, 141, 151, 182

Consuls, 78, 112, 153, 196-202;

plebeian, 121;

functions limited by quaestorship, 80;

censorship, 114;

praetorship, 121;

appeal from, 79;

under the Principate, 367

Cooptation of gentes, 13;

in priestly colleges, 124;

in Senate, 373

Corn-supply, 210, 411

Curators, 413 foll.

Curies, 40, 41, 42, 250

Custom, 22, 58, 269

Debt, 90-92, 106, 117, 127

Decemvirate, 30, 104-108

Declaration of war, 56, 290, 344, 372, 376

Delegation, 61, 80, 98, 323, 324, 327, 358, 377, 382, 384, 389, 406

Dictator, 84, 85, 91-195, 336 foll.

Dispensation from laws, 276

Divine right, 45, 77

Domitian law, 255

Economic condition of Italy, 90 foll., 332, 425;

measures of relief under the Principate, 425

Edict, 153, 177, 178, 205;

provincial, 326;

Emperor’s, 342

Egypt, 435

Election, not primitive, 46;

method of appointing Republican magistrates, 78;

of appointing Princeps, 358, 376;

a prerogative of the people, 245, 372;

procedure, 186, 187, 349;

control of Princeps over, 349

Empire, 316, 427;

effect on Roman constitution, 147

Equites, 41, 73, 224, 402;

revision of, 224, 402;

formation of an equestrian order, 225, 404, 415;

their policy, 334, 402;

influence on the Revolution, 333

Exile, 139, 140

Family, 18-23, 140, 226;

the imperial, 356

Federal Government, traces of, 295, 311, 336

Fetiales, 56, 60, 290

Finance, 213, 286;

public finance, 229, 394 foll.;

the Budget, 231, 287, 429;

finance in allied cities, 307, 424;

in provinces, 417, 429;

the fiscus, 395, 416

Fines, 169, 246, 371

Flamens, 52, 53, 189

Fleet, 236

Foreign elements in early Rome, 3, 293;

foreign influences, 4, 209

Foreign policy, controlled by the Senate, 60, 282, 376;

by the Princeps, 372, 376

Forms of law, 56, 87, 128, 205

Franchise, 241;

a gift of the Princeps, 345

Freedmen, 144-146;

freedmen’s vote, 145;

freedmen under the Principate, 414

Germany, administration of, 435

Gracchus, Gaius, 142, 184, 201, 254;

Tiberius, 176, 248

Hereditary succession, 45, 362

Imprisonment, 168

Inauguration, 50

Infamia, 185;

grounds of, 226-228;

effects of, 229

Intercession, 176, 181, 217;

not applicable to censors, 217;

nor to judices, 177

International law, 56, 60, 139, 141, 244, 283, 289 foll.

Interregnum, 47, 48, 83, 147

Italy, organisation of, 285, 422 foll.;

races of, 289

Jurisdiction, civil, 242;

distinction of jus and judicium, 64, 204, 382;

exercised by king and judex, 62;

magistrate and judex, 121, 204, 205, 382;

curule aediles and judex, 210, 211, 369;

by personal cognisance of praetor, 382;

and of Princeps, 382, 419;

by procurators, 416;

by consuls and Senate, 385;

tribune’s intercession, 178, 371, 383, 384, and Appendix

Jurisdiction, criminal, 62, 167;

exercised by king, 62;

by duumviri, 63, 161;

consuls, 86, 199;

aediles, 211, 369;

people, 86, 88, 372;

quaestors, 63, 80, 211 foll.;

praetors, 207;

Senate and consuls, 386, 387;

Princeps, 388;

praefectus urbi, 408, 424;

pr. annonae, 412;

pr. vigilum, 413;

pr. praetorio, 410, 424;

in standing courts, 177, 183, 207, 213, 236, 372, 386, 390;

by special commissions, 239, 278;

tribune’s intercession, 178, 371

⸺ administrative, of consuls, 198;

censors, 232

⸺ capital, 79, 107, 109, 161;

of the people, 245;

on appeal from consuls, praetors, quaestors, curule aediles, and tribunes, 246;

of Plebs on appeal from tribunes, 100, 107, 161, 168, 246;

and plebeian aediles, 246;

procedure in judicia populi, 246

⸺ domestic, 2

⸺ international, 294 foll.

⸺ military, 63, 76, 79, 84, 85, 108, 151, 155, 279, 328, 389

⸺ municipal, 302, 304, 423

⸺ political, 182, 211

⸺ provincial, 155, 325, 435

Land, public, 89, 90, 117, 229, 286, 413;

tenure, 8, 15, 65-69, 75, 310;

connexion with Servian tribes, 67, 223;

in Italy, 307;

in provinces, 320, 430

Latin league, 295 foll.;

status of Latins, 308

Law, religious, 23, 51-57;

judge-made, 206;

form of a, 242;

influence of Roman law on the Empire, 437

Legates, 434 foll.

Legislation, procedure in, 256 foll.

Legislative powers, of Populus, 5, 42, 239, 377;

limited by magisterial initiative, 43, 88;

by veto, 86, 179;

by encroachments of Princeps and Senate, 372, 377 foll.

⸺ of Plebs, 96-97, 109, 124, 126

Licinio-Sextian laws, 120, 130, 216

Lot, 47, 124, 148, 191, 198, 200, 204, 213, 285, 433

Magistracy, 84, 150, 152-191, 363 foll.;

qualifications, 183;

candidature, 187 foll.;

minor magistracies, 234 foll., 364

Manumission, 133, 134

Marius, 134, 240, 249

Marriage, 17, 39, 111, 136;

intermarriage with foreigners, 295

Martial law, 279

Master of the Horse, 196

Military service, 41, 68-74, 137, 138;

conscription, 154;

cavalry, 41, 73, 225;

pensions, 396

Monarchy, 44, 45-65, 337

Municipal administration of Italy, 304, 305, 313 foll.;

in the provinces, 437

Nobility, in later Republic, 129, 265;

in Principate, 398 foll.

Nomination to office, 47, 78, 98, 191, 245, 360

Pardon, 391

Patria potestas, 18-23

Patricians, origin of, 5;

possess caput, 31;

predominance in early Republic, 86, 87;

alliance with plebeian aristocracy, 129 foll.;

created by Princeps, 347, 399;

special powers of patrician senators, 265, 273, 275

Plebeians, origin of, 5, 6;

generally excluded from clans, 10, 11;

members of Populus, 66;

gradual rise to power, 92 foll., 111, 120, 126, 127;

plebeian law, 17, 28, 29, 104

Political misdemeanours, 181, 182, 227

Pomerium, extension of, 342, 345

Pontifex Maximus, in monarchy, 50, 51;

conducts an election of tribunes, 108;

in Principate, 350, 351, 397

Pontifical college, in monarchy, 50 foll.;

exponents of fas, 54;

of jus, 86;

admission of Plebeians, 123;

election to, 124, 254

Praefects, 394, 396, 401, 406

Praetors, 120, 153, 157, 202-208;

under Principate, 364, 368; see Edict

Priestly orders, 442

Primogeniture, 22, 130

Prisoners of war, 141

Procurators, 414

Prohibition, magisterial right of, 119, 173-176

Property, tenure of, 5, 8, 35;

Servian classification, 69 foll.;

registration by censor, 221-223;

tenure by foreigners, 295

Provinces, 317 foll., 426 foll.;

jurisdiction, 155, 325;

revenues, 231, 286, 417, 429 foll.;

formation, 284, 285;

arrangements of Sulla, 201, 251, 322;

of Gracchus, 180, 201, 322;

of Pompeius, 323;

of the Principate, 345, 401, 428

Public works, 209, 232, 413

Publilian law, 124, 125, 126, 216

Quaestors, delegates of king, 63;

of consul for jurisdiction, 80, 161, 246;

for finance, 81, 155, 178, 394, 432;

in the field, 117, 141;

functions, 212, 216;

no vocatio or prensio, 181;

appointment, 81, 102;

qualifications, 184, 364, 373;

under Principate, 369

Ramnes, 3, 40, 67, 73

Religious ideas, 36, 46, 51, 162, 440;

their connexion with the clans, 16;

international influence of, 56, 289, 291

Religious sanctions, 54, 99, 109

Representation, 312, 443

Rescission of sentences, 248

Responsibility of magistrates, 181, 217

Revenues, 229

Revolution, 332

Rights, 31, 33, 136, 138 foll., 240, 241; see Caput and Citizenship

Romanisation of provinces, 436

Rotation in tenure of power, 198, 199

Scourging, 168

Senate, 147, 151, 261, 262;

relation to king, 58 foll.;

to consuls and other magistrates, 81 foll., 264, 267;

to Princeps, 348, 359, 362, 376;

powers, 59 foll., 83, 273, 276, 282 foll., 395, 397;

control of legislation and elections, 125, 254, 273 foll., 377;

procedure, 268 foll., 348;

insignia, 265;

revision, 219, 263, 347, 374;

reform attempted by Sulla, 266, 335, 373;

under the Principate, 373;

conscripti, 82;

senatorial order at Rome, 399, 411;

in municipalities, 438.

Servian organisation, 65 foll., 138, 145

Servius Tullius, 58, 62, 138

Slavery, 24 foll., 105, 141 foll.; see Manumission

Solon, 69, 127

Sulla, 146, 180, 183, 189, 197, 202, 204, 207, 213, 221, 234, 253, 254, 266

Taxation, Roman theory of, 319;

direct, 320, 431;

tithes, 321, 431; see Tribute

Testaments, 26 foll., 106, 135, 136, 144, 251, 295

Tities, 3, 40, 67 (priores, posteriores, 73)

Treaties, 56, 60, 139, 244, 283, 291, 345, 372, 376;

commercial, 293

Tribes, original, 3, 40, 41, 66, 67;

Servian, 66 foll.;

Republican, 101, 223, 252

Tribunate, consular, 112-114;

military, 364, 373;

of the Plebs, 93 foll., 108, 365;

inviolability, 99, 345;

power of prohibition, 119, 176;

intercession, 178 foll., 346, 370;

jurisdiction, 168, 169, 371;

relation to the Senate, 161, 179, 371, 375;

to the Plebs, 96, 124, 126, 346

Tribunician power possessed by Princeps, 338, 370

Tribute, from citizens, 41, 75, 137, 138, 222, 303;

from subject states, 319 foll., 430

Triumph, 156-158

Triumvirate (43 B.C.), 338

Twelve Tables, 7, 16, 19, 26, 29, 87, 91, 92, 102, 104 foll., 111, 126, 161, 205, 241, 281

Valerio-Horatian laws, 108 foll., 124, 126, 236

Varian commission, 175, 248

Vestals, 52, 53

Voting: procedure, 258, 259;

basis of division, 253;

deprivation of right of, 241;

freedmen’s vote, 146;

rights of new citizens, 312