The senatus consultum ultimum ("final decree of the Senate", often abbreviated to SCU) is the modern term given to resolutions of the Roman Senate lending...

A senatus consultum (Latin: decree of the senate, plural: senatus consulta) is a text emanating from the senate in Ancient Rome. It is used in the modern...

The senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus ("senatorial decree concerning the Bacchanalia") is a notable Old Latin inscription dating to 186 BC. It was discovered...

a senatus auctoritas, while any motion that was passed and not vetoed was recorded as a senatus consultum. After the vote, each senatus consultum and...

Legislation of 186 survives in the form of an inscription. Known as the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, it brought the Bacchanalia under control of the...

The senatus consultum Macedonianum was a decree of the Roman senate[when?] pertaining to loans taken out by adult sons who were still subject to the legal...

a senatus consultum conflicted with a law (lex) that was passed by an assembly, the law overrode the senatus consultum because the senatus consultum had...

troops and suspend public business. During the late republic, the senatus consultum ultimum emerged wherein the senate would urge the magistrates to break...

entities mentioned, Senātus and the Populus Rōmānus, are sovereign when combined. However, where populus is sovereign alone, Senātus is not. Under the Roman...

A sénatus-consulte (French translation of Latin: senatus consultum, lit. 'decree of the senate') was a feature of French law during the French Consulate...

receipt of the reports of armed men gathering in Etruria, carried the senatus consultum ultimum instructing the consuls to do whatever it took to respond...

The princeps senatus (pl. principes senatus), in English the leader of the senate, was the first member by precedence on the membership rolls of the Roman...

the cursus honorum was the princeps senatus, an extremely prestigious office for a patrician. The princeps senatus served as the leader of the Senate and...

the Senate authorised the consul to use force via the so-called senatus consultum ultimum. The religious purpose of the dictatorship in undertaking...

repeal of an ally's colonisation bill, the Senate moved the first senatus consultum ultimum against him, resulting in his death, with many others, on...

they were perpetually bound by its penalties by a Senatus-consultum Pernicianum. A Senatus-consultum Claudianum so far modified the strictness of the new...

extreme emergencies were addressed through the passage of the decree senatus consultum ultimum ("ultimate decree of the senate"). This suspended civil government...

at Rome. Cicero defended the use of force as being authorised by a senatus consultum ultimum, which would prove similar to his own use of force under such...

official right to create law, senatorial opinion – enshrined in a senatus consultum (pl. senatus consulta) – was largely deferred to. In that role, the senate...

tribunes vetoed these proposals, the Senate ignored it and moved the senatus consultum ultimum, empowering the magistrates to take whatever actions were...

given the authority to care for the decrees of the Senate. When a senatus consultum was passed, it would be transcribed into a document and deposited...

laws eventually led to an internal crisis, the declaration of the senatus consultum ultimum, and the deaths of Saturninus, Glaucia, and their followers...

on the Aventine hill. Their refusal was tantamount to rebellion. A senatus consultum ultimum was then moved, instructing the consul Lucius Opimius to ensure...

Cicero could have done this on his own authority (augmented by a senatus consultum ultimum), he convened the senate and put the matter before it, almost...

among equals" among the citizens of Rome. Under the Republic, the princeps senatus, traditionally the oldest or most honoured member of the Senate, had the...

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of Italy ratio – Relationship between two numbers of the same kind senatus consultum – Resolution of the ancient Roman Senate stipulatio First Triumvirate –...

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Triumviri Decemviri Public law Mos maiorum Ius Senatus consultum Quaestio perpetua Senatus consultum ultimum Titles and honours Emperor Legatus Dux Officium...

cloaked themselves opportunistically in terms of libertas populi Romani and senatus auctoritas as means for self-advancement. While ancient accounts of the...