Roman Public Life

Name: Roman Public Life
Author: Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

Constitutional history -- Rome; Rome -- Politics and government

narrowest etymological sense of those words. Perhaps the accession of
Diocletian does, after all, mark the close of a true “Roman” public life.

The task, even as thus limited, has been a long one, and would have been
still longer had it not been for the kindly assistance rendered me by a
former pupil, Miss Muriel Clay, of Lady Margaret Hall. The help which
she has given in the reading of the proofs, and in the verification of
the references to original authorities, has not only facilitated the
production of the book, but has materially improved it by the removal
of errors and obscurities. I have also to thank her for the Index of
subjects and the Index of Latin words which accompany the volume.

                                                              A. H. J. G.

OXFORD, _April 1901_.




CONTENTS

(_The references are to the pages_)


                                CHAPTER I

                    THE EARLIEST CONSTITUTION OF ROME

                        _THE GROWTH OF THE CITY_

    SECT.

    1. Early Italian associations; the _pagus_, _vicus_, _gens_, 1.
       Growth of the city of Rome, 2. Foreign influences on Roman life, 3.

         _THE ELEMENTS OF THE POPULATION—PATRICIANS, PLEBEIANS,
                                CLIENTS_

    2. Origin of the Patricians, 4; of the Plebeians, 5. Clientship, 7.

                       _ROMAN FAMILY ORGANISATION_

    3. The _gens_, 9. The _familia_, 18. The _nexus_, 24. Slavery, 24.
       Transmission of property and forms of testament, 26. _Caput_, 31.
       _Capitis deminutio_, 32.

       _THE CITIZENS AND THE POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF THE STATE_

    4. The _populus Romanus_, 33. Rights of the citizen, 35.
       _Auspicium_, 36. The tribes, 40. The army, 41. The _curiae_, 41.

                     _THE MONARCHICAL CONSTITUTION_

    5. Relation of the king to the people, 42. Titles and _insignia_
       of the king, 44. Mode of appointment of the king, 45. Religious
       character of the monarchy, 51. The rule of _fas_, 52. Civil powers
       of the king, 57. The Senate of the monarchy, 58. _Consilia_ of the
       king, 61. Delegates of the king, 61. Jurisdiction of the monarchy,
       62.

                       _THE SERVIAN CONSTITUTION_

    6. Social changes that led to the Servian reform, 65. The Servian
       tribes, 66. Registration for military purposes; the new
       organisation of the army, 68. The _census_, 69. Transference of
       political rights to the new assembly of the centuries, 75. The
       close of the monarchy, 76.

                               CHAPTER II

                THE GROWTH OF THE REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION

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