Senate, Roman Chief governing body of the Roman republic. It originated as a royal council under the early kings. By the 2nd century bc, it controlled all matters of policy. Senators were chosen for life by the censors and at first were mainly former consuls. They numbered 300, raised to 600 under Sulla, to 900 by Caesar, and reduced to 600 under Augustus.
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- The Senate of the Roman Empire was a political institution in the ancient Roman Empire. After the fall of the Roman Republic...
- The moment is considered by many to be the official fall of the Western Roman Empire. Yet the Senate continued to function under his rule and that of the...
- The Senate continued on, though, and even outlasted the Roman Empire itself, but it would never regain the power and prestige it had enjoyed in the middle...
- The Roman Senate (Senatus) from the latin Senex (for elder or council of elders) was a deliberative governing body.
- Despite this transformation, the Senate continued to exist in a diminished form throughout the Roman Empire.
- The decrees of the Senate in Roman law during the empire no longer had the force they had under the republic.
- Its members were collectively termed patres et conscripti (“the fathers and the enrolled”), suggesting that the Senate was initially composed of two different.
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- It is worth mentioning here, for example, the senate in Constantinople, which during the fall of the Western Roman Empire gained a significance comparable to its...
- Even after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Senate in Rome continued to function under barbaric rule, retaining influence at the city level.