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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 Senate. [1] [2] Although officially out of the cursus honorum and possessing no imperium, this office conferred prestige on the senator holding it.
Whilst not literally being a consul, he maintained the right to a seat on the consuls' platform at the front of the Curia. He was awarded ius primae relationis, the right to speak first in a Senate meeting. He was assured the right to summon a meeting of the Senate, a useful tool for policy-making and upholding the res publica illusion.
The consilium principis comprised Augustus, the consuls and 15 senators with lower ranking members rotating out of the body every six months, however, owing to Augustus' auctoritas and him being princeps the body fell under his auspices. Scullard reinforces this notion saying "In one important way he made the Senate more efficient and at the ...
For example, the senate now held jurisdiction over criminal trials. In these cases, a consul presided, the senators constituted the jury, and the verdict was handed down in the form of a decree (senatus consultum), [4] [7] and, while a verdict could not be appealed, the Emperor could pardon a convicted individual through a veto. Each province ...
The presiding magistrate would then begin a discussion by referring an issue to the senators, who would discuss the issue, one at a time, by order of seniority, with the first to speak, the most senior senator, known as the princeps senatus (leader of the Senate), [1] who was then followed by ex-consuls (consulares), and then the praetors and ...
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Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general.. The Seventeenth Amendment ...
He certainly fell out of Augustus's favour as an heir; the historian Erich S. Gruen notes various contemporary sources that state Agrippa Postumus was a "vulgar young man, brutal and brutish, and of depraved character". [231] On 19 August AD 14, [232] [233] Augustus died while visiting Nola where his father had died.