Senatus

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 1 §8 senators

  The hundred 'Fathers' first chosen by Romulus, forming the Senate.

• The History of Rome, Book 2 §1 senate

  The council of elders (the Fathers, patres) advising the magistrates; Brutus refilled it to three hundred members.

• The History of Rome, Book 3 §1 Fathers

  The patres, the senators; the standing council of former magistrates and leading men whose authority shaped policy.

• The History of Rome, Book 4 §1 the Fathers

  The patres, the senators; collectively the Senate, the standing council of former magistrates that guided policy.

• The History of Rome, Book 5 §7 the senate

  The council of Rome's elders and former magistrates (the Fathers), the steering body of the commonwealth.

• The History of Rome, Book 6 §15 conscript fathers

  The senators in formal session—the council of Rome's elders and ex-magistrates, the steering body of the commonwealth.

• The History of Rome, Book 7 §1 the Senate

  The council of elders (patres / conscript fathers) that directed Roman policy and into which embassies were introduced.

• The History of Rome, Book 8 §2 the Senate

  The council of elders (the 'fathers') that directed Roman policy.

• The History of Rome, Book 9 §7 senate

  The governing council of Rome, the 'conscript fathers', whose roll the censors revised.

• The History of Rome, Book 21 §3 senate

  Here the Carthaginian senate, the council of elders that deliberated on war and command.

• The History of Rome, Book 22 §61 senate

  The Roman senate, the council of state that directed policy and the war.

• The History of Rome, Book 23 §2 The senate

  The governing council—here the Capuan senate, which Pacuvius shields from massacre; elsewhere the Roman senate, the steering body of the war.

• The History of Rome, Book 24 §2 outposts and watches of the senators

  The governing council—here the city senate of Croton favoring Rome; elsewhere the Roman or Syracusan senate.

• The History of Rome, Book 25 §1 the fathers

  The Roman Senate, governing council that directs the levy, the prodigy-expiations, and the fate of the Cannae legions.

• The History of Rome, Book 27 §2 the senate

  The Roman senate, the chief deliberative council of the commonwealth.

• The History of Rome, Book 31 §2 Senate

  The Roman Senate, the governing council that here takes the Macedonian question under its care.

• The History of Rome, Book 32 §2 Senate

  The council of state that directed Roman policy.

• The History of Rome, Book 33 §23 Senate

  The Roman Senate, which voted thanksgivings and appointed the ten commissioners for the peace.

• The History of Rome, Book 34 §22 the Senate

  The Roman Senate; Nabis contrasts it with the Spartan equalizing constitution.

• The History of Rome, Book 35 §2 the Senate

  The Roman senate, the deliberative council of magistrates and ex-magistrates.

• The History of Rome, Book 36 §1 conscript fathers

  The Roman Senate, the standing council of former magistrates that directed policy and finance.

• The History of Rome, Book 37 §1 Senate

  The governing council of Rome, composed of former magistrates.

• The History of Rome, Book 38 §2 Senate

  The Roman senate, supreme deliberative body directing foreign policy.

• The History of Rome, Book 39 §14 Senate

  The Roman council of state; its decrees (senatus consulta) carried the authority of the governing order.

• The History of Rome, Book 40 §1 Senate

  The Roman Senate, the deliberative council that directs provinces, embassies, religion, and war throughout the book.

• The History of Rome, Book 41 §6 Senate

  The council of Rome, which received generals' reports, decreed provinces and supplications, and adjudicated the embassies of this book.

• The History of Rome, Book 42 §1 the Senate

  The governing council of the Roman Republic, made up of former magistrates, which directed foreign policy, finance, and the assignment of provinces and armies.

• The History of Rome, Book 43 §2 the Senate

  The standing council of former magistrates that governed Roman foreign policy, finance, and the provinces.