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 injurious to the State.

Pilum.  A wooden shaft 4 feet long, with an iron head 2 feet 3 inches long.  There was also a lighter kind.

Plebiscitum. 1.  A resolution of the people. 2.  Equivalent to lex.

Plebs.  Originally the free citizens of Rome who had no political privileges.

Populares.  The anti-senatorial party at and after the time of the Gracchi.

Possessor.  An occupier of public land.

Praefectura.  A Roman colony, or Municipium, in which a Roman Praefectus administered justice.

Proletarii.  Roman citizens rated at less than 1,500 asses.

Publicani.  Farmers of the revenue.

Rostra.  A name given to the stage in the Forum where speakers addressed the people.  So called because ornamented with beaks of ships captured from the enemy.

Scriptura.  A tax paid to the State on cattle grazing on public land.

Socii.  Free inhabitants of Italy.  See p. 16.

Vectigal. 1.  A tax of 1/10th of the year’s crops. 2.  The revenue produced by the Scriptura.

INDEX

Adherbal. 
Aedui, the. 
Ager Publicus. 
Agrarian law, the first. 
Ahenobarbus, Domitius. 
Albinus, Aulus. 
Albinus, Sp. 
Allobroges, the. 
Ambrones, the.

Antyllus. 
Aquae Sextiae. 
Archelaus. 
Aristion. 
Aristonicus. 
Army, the Roman. 
Arverni, the. 
Asculum. 
Asia, taxation of. 
Athenion. 
Athens, siege of. 
Attalus of Pergamus.

Baebius. 
Bestia. 
Blossius. 
Bocchus. 
Bomilcar.

Caepio, Q. Servilius. 
Calvinus. 
Capsa. 
Carbo. 
Cassius, Sp. 
Catiline. 
Catulus. 
Centumviri, the. 
Chaeroneia, battle of. 
Cimbri. 
Cinna, L. Cornelius. 
Cirta. 
Cives Romani, the. 
Cleon. 
Clientes. 
Colline Gate, battle of the. 
Colony, a Roman. 
Comitia Centuriata. 
Comitia Tribunata. 
Commercium. 
Connubium. 
Cornelia. 
Crassus, P. Licinius.