The senatus consultum ultimum ("final decree of the Senate", often abbreviated to SCU) is the modern term given to resolutions of the Roman Senate lending...

Ancient Rome. It is used in the modern phrase senatus consultum ultimum. Translated into French as sénatus-consulte, the term was also used during the French...

After 202 BC, the Senate responded to emergencies by passing the senatus consultum ultimum ("Ultimate Decree of the Senate"), which suspended civil government...

repeal of an ally's colonisation bill, the Senate moved the first senatus consultum ultimum against him, resulting in his death, with many others, on the...

troops and suspend public business. During the late republic, the senatus consultum ultimum emerged wherein the senate would urge the magistrates to break...

Rome. Cicero defended the use of force as being authorised by a senatus consultum ultimum, which would prove similar to his own use of force under such...

SPQR or S.P.Q.R. an initialism for Senatus Populusque Romanus (Classical Latin: [s̠ɛˈnäːt̪ʊs̠ pɔpʊˈɫ̪ʊs̠kʷɛ roːˈmäːnʊs̠]; transl. "The Senate and People...

tribunes vetoed these proposals, the Senate ignored it and moved the senatus consultum ultimum, empowering the magistrates to take whatever actions were necessary...

Cicero could have done this on his own authority (augmented by a senatus consultum ultimum), he convened the senate and put the matter before it, almost...

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...

the Senate authorised the consul to use force via the so-called senatus consultum ultimum. The religious purpose of the dictatorship in undertaking rituals...

of the reports of armed men gathering in Etruria, carried the senatus consultum ultimum instructing the consuls to do whatever it took to respond to the...

(and was revived only two more times) and was replaced with the senatus consultum ultimum ("ultimate decree of the senate"), a senatorial decree that authorised...

the cursus honorum was the princeps senatus, an extremely prestigious office for a patrician. The princeps senatus served as the leader of the Senate and...

the Aventine hill. Their refusal was tantamount to rebellion. A senatus consultum ultimum was then moved, instructing the consul Lucius Opimius to ensure...

himself, and in spite of the fact that the Senate had given its senatus consultum ultimum, Catiline had not yet been executed. Cicero goes on to describe...

eventually led to an internal crisis, the declaration of the senatus consultum ultimum, and the deaths of Saturninus, Glaucia, and their followers in...

emergencies were addressed through the passage of the decree senatus consultum ultimum ("ultimate decree of the senate"). This suspended civil government...

Labienus – for the murder of Saturninus in accordance with a senatus consultum ultimum some forty years earlier. The most famous event of the year was...

among equals" among the citizens of Rome. Under the Republic, the princeps senatus, traditionally the oldest or most honoured member of the Senate, had the...

possibly a signal from Caesar to the senate against use of the senatus consultum ultimum (a declaration of emergency which gave the consuls political cover...

legally-enshrined provocatio rights – by passing the so-called senatus consultum ultimum ("final decree of the senate"). The first such decree was moved...

given the authority to care for the decrees of the Senate. When a senatus consultum was passed, it would be transcribed into a document and deposited...

Horse Senate Cursus honorum Pontifex Maximus Princeps senatus Interrex Procurator Acta Senatus Abbott 1901, p. 28 Gwyn, David (2012). The Roman Republic:...

Glaucia's candidacy over Marius's disqualification, by issuing a senatus consultum ultimum, and – for the first time – ordered the magistrates to take whatever...

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Cursus honorum Byzantine Senate Pontifex Maximus Princeps senatus Interrex Promagistrate Acta Senatus Abbott, Frank Frost (1901). A History and Description...

into disuse, and during emergencies, the Senate would pass the senatus consultum ultimum ("ultimate decree of the Senate") which suspended civil government...

appointing promagistrates to serve, either by random casting of lots or by senatus consultum (advice of the Senate); however, these appointments were not formally...

cloaked themselves opportunistically in terms of libertas populi Romani and senatus auctoritas as means for self-advancement. While ancient accounts of the...