LIST OF PHRASES

_It has been suggested that the following List of Phrases occurring in
the History may be useful. But the definitions are only approximately
precise._

_Aerarium_. The State treasury.

_Capite Censi_. Roman citizens rated by the head only, as having no
property.

_Cives Romani_. Citizens of Rome, a Roman colony, or a Municipium.

_Clientes_. Dependents of the Patres. Free, but not Cives Romani.

_Comitia Centuriata_. The subdivisions (193 or 194 in number) of the
six classes into which the Romans were divided, according to property,
were called Centuries, and the assembly of them Comitia Centuriata.

_Comitia Tributa_. The assembly in which the people voted according to
the tribes or territorial divisions.

_Dominium_. Ownership.

_Equites_. Originally the men rich enough to maintain war-horses;
afterwards the rich class corresponding to our city men.

_Flamen_. A priest of some particular god.

_Frumentaria_. Lex. A law for cheapening corn.

_Imperator_. The title given on the battle-field to a successful
general by his soldiers.

_Imperium_. The power given by the State to an individual who was to
command an army.

_Interrex_. An official appointed to hold an election of consuls when
the regular mode of election had not been followed.

_Judicia_. Bodies of jurymen (judices) who tried criminal cases.

_Jugerum_. A measure of surface 240 feet long, 120 broad.

_Justitium_. A suspension of public business for some religious
observance.

_Latifundia_. Large estates cultivated by slave-labour.

_Latini_. See p. 16.

_Legati_. Officers of the general's suite corresponding to our
generals of division.

_Libertini_. The class of freedmen known as Liberti, with reference to
freeborn men, Libertini with reference to each other.

_Municipia_. Conquered Italian towns having the right of acquiring
property in the Roman State (Commercium), and marrying the daughter of
a Roman citizen (Connubium), but unable to acquire the honours of the
State (Jus Honoris), or to vote at Rome (Jus Suffragii).

_Negotiatores_. Money-lenders.

_Nobiles_. The offspring of men who had held a curule office.

_Optimates_. The senatorial party at and after the era of the Gracchi.

_Patres_. 1. Originally Cives Romani, the governing body at Rome. 2.
Afterwards the Senate.

_Patronus_. A Pater with reference to a Client. A Dominus with
reference to a Libertus.

_Perduellio_. Abuse of official position