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    The cursus honorum (Latin for 'course of honors', or more colloquially 'ladder of offices'; Latin: [ˈkʊrsʊs hɔˈnoːrũː]) was the sequential order of public...
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  • In cursu honorum (lit. 'in a course of honors') is a Latin phrase that refers to specialized study at the undergraduate level. Generally, a small percentage...
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  • Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus (c. 155 BC – c. 91 BC) was an ancient Roman statesman and general, he was a leader of the Optimates, the conservative...
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    27 BC). Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the cursus honorum—an ascending sequence of public offices to which politicians aspired—after...
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    governors. 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...
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  • Nationality Roman Occupation Statesman Known for Gang violence Office Cursus honorum up to praetor (including tribune of the plebs) Political party Optimates...
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    or civil service, promotion was expected to follow the principle of cursus honorum, rising through the ranks, with the expectation that ideally, a minimum...
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    directly to his first consulship without following the traditional cursus honorum (the required steps to advance in a political career). He was elected...
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    portal Acta Senatus Aedile Centuria Curia Comitia curiata Gerousia SPQR Cursus honorum Interrex Master of the Horse Pontifex Maximus Princeps senatus Promagistrate...
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    quaestors and other minor positions. These offices were held in order – the cursus honorum – from junior to senior, with exceptions for the tribunate and aedilate...
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  • from Faleria provides us with details of the earlier portion of his cursus honorum. Gallus began in his teens as one of the tresviri monetalis, the most...
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    maintenance from personal funds. For those who had reached their goal in the Cursus honorum, permanent priesthood was best sought or granted after a lifetime's...
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  • empire in 1917. Ancient Rome portal Constitution of the Roman Republic Cursus honorum Translatio imperii "Etymology of the word emperor". Retrieved 13 January...
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    unreservedly, paints Pupienus as an example of advancement through the cursus honorum due to military success. It claims he was the son of a blacksmith, was...
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  • legate. The position of tribunus laticlavius was the first step on the Cursus honorum. Tribunus laticlavius are typically depicted wearing a purple cloak...
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    censor Quaestor Aedile Roman Dictator Master of the Horse Roman Senate Cursus honorum Byzantine Senate Pontifex Maximus Princeps senatus Interrex Promagistrate...
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    censor Quaestor Aedile Roman Dictator Master of the Horse Roman Senate Cursus honorum Byzantine Senate Pontifex Maximus Abbott, Frank Frost (1901). A History...
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    mainly Italian aristocrats performing the military component of their cursus honorum (conventional career path). Later, provincial career officers became...
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    Political institutions Imperium Collegiality Auctoritas Roman citizenship Cursus honorum Assemblies Centuriate Curiate Plebeian Tribal Ordinary magistrates Consul...
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  • not wholly clear. Compare the description above with that of the Circus Maximus. https://books.google.com/books?id=9rI6CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA533 Cursus honorum...
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    accountable to the enlarged senatorial class. He also rigidly formalised the cursus honorum by clearly stating the progression of office and associated age requirements...
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    Lucius Valerius Flaccus, he was brought to Rome and began to follow the cursus honorum: he was successively military tribune (214 BC), quaestor (204), aedile...
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    members of each class, a distinct career path was available (known as the cursus honorum). The traditional magistracies were only available to citizens of the...
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    members of each class, a distinct career path was available (known as the cursus honorum). The traditional magistracies were only available to citizens of the...
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    pontifices, whose powers were increasingly woven into the civil and military cursus honorum. Eventually, the office of pontifex maximus became a de facto consular...
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    (lit. 'Public Assembly') and to maintain order during its procedures. Cursus honorum Praetorian Guard Citations Staveley & Lintott 2012. Livy. The History...
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    Political institutions Imperium Collegiality Auctoritas Roman citizenship Cursus honorum Assemblies Centuriate Curiate Plebeian Tribal Ordinary magistrates Consul...
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    optimo iure, who held these rights as well as the ius suffragii and ius honorum (the additional rights to vote and to hold office). The Latini were a class...
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    censor Quaestor Aedile Roman Dictator Master of the Horse Roman Senate Cursus honorum Byzantine Senate Pontifex Maximus Princeps senatus Interrex Promagistrate...
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    offices that ordinary senators were required to hold as part of the cursus honorum. In 1 BC, Gaius was given command of the eastern provinces, after which...
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