Senate (Nova Roma)

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===The senators and their status===
 
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Current [[Consul (Nova Roma)|consuls]], [[Praetor (Nova Roma)|praetors]], [[Censor (Nova Roma)|censors]] and appointed [[:Category:Senators (Nova Roma)|senators]] are members of the Nova Roman Senate. Senators are appointed by the censors. The list of senators is regularly revised by the censors, but senators are only removed if they bring the Senate into disrepute.
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Current [[Consul (Nova Roma)|consuls]], [[Praetor (Nova Roma)|praetors]], [[Censor (Nova Roma)|censors]] and appointed [[:Category:Senators (Nova Roma)|senators]] are members of the Nova Roman Senate. Senators are appointed by the censors. The list of senators is regularly revised by the censors, but senators removed either by nota or under the terms of the lex Popillia senatoria.
  
 
Present and former holders of [[Magistracies (Nova Roma)|higher magistracies]] are not necessarily senators but have the right to participate in meetings of the Senate (the ''ius sententiae'') by virtue of their office. A person who holds a higher magistracy will normally become a senator after his term of office.  
 
Present and former holders of [[Magistracies (Nova Roma)|higher magistracies]] are not necessarily senators but have the right to participate in meetings of the Senate (the ''ius sententiae'') by virtue of their office. A person who holds a higher magistracy will normally become a senator after his term of office.  

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The Senate of Nova Roma is a council where a select few citizens, mostly former or current magistrates, can discuss the state of the Republic and issue statements on what course of action they perceive most beneficial. These may be advisory or decisive in nature, the latter mostly in regards to appointments. It is said by Polybian theorists to represent the element of Oligarchy in the Roman political equilibrium.

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Senators (album senatorium)

The senators and their status

Current consuls, praetors, censors and appointed senators are members of the Nova Roman Senate. Senators are appointed by the censors. The list of senators is regularly revised by the censors, but senators removed either by nota or under the terms of the lex Popillia senatoria.

Present and former holders of higher magistracies are not necessarily senators but have the right to participate in meetings of the Senate (the ius sententiae) by virtue of their office. A person who holds a higher magistracy will normally become a senator after his term of office.

Tribunes of the plebs are entitled to attend the sessions of the Senate but don't have the ius sententiae unless they are senators.

The decisions appointing new senators

Apart from exceptional times when new senators may be appointed by a dictator, such an appointment is made by both censors.

The Censorial edicts on Senate appointments will provide most of these decisions.

The current album senatorium

The current senators are in order of senatorial rank :

The ius sententiae dicendae

Those who sit and vote in the Senate by right of ius sententiae dicendae granted under the lex Popillia senatoria.

Senatores censorii:
1. A. Tullia Scholastica, princeps senatus
2. Fl. Vedius Germanicus
3. P. Annaeus Constantinus Placidus
4. Sex. Lucilius Tutor
5. Q. Arrius Nauta, decemvir stlitibus iudicandis
Senatores consulares:
6. M. Pompeius Caninus
7. T. Domitius Draco
8. C. Cornelius Barosus
Senatores praetorii:
9. C. Petronius Dexter
10. M. Hortensia Maior Fabiana Faustina
11. M. Aurelius Cotta Iovius, consul
12. C. Artorius Praeconinus
13. D. Aurelius Ingeniarius, decemvir stlitibus iudicandis
14. C. Petronius Stephanus Turpilianus, consul
Senatores aedilicii:
15. A. Vitellius Celsus, tribunus militum comitiatus
16. A. Iulius Paterculus , quattuorvir rerum curandarum
17. M. Caecilius Metellus Tocaiensis, aedilis curulis
18. Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, triumvir monetalis
19. C. Flavius Constantinus Aeneas Stilicho, praetor
Senatores tribunicii:
Senatores quaestorii:
20. Gallio Velius Marsallas
Magistratus et privati cum iure sententiae dicendae:
21. P. Aurelius Barbatus, praetor, vir tribunicius


Organization of the senatorial work

The Senate takes its senatus consulta in plenary sessions. In order to prepare them, it may work in committees. They are ordinarily several sessions a year. Nevertheless, the sessions depend on their convocation by a presiding magistrate.

See the Senate procedures

Senate plenary sessions

The Sessions of the Senate are reported here, with every senatus consulta discussed, passed or rejected.

Senate standing committees

Cn. Caesare C. Tullio cos. MMDCCLXV a.u.c., the Senate standing committees are as per section II of this Senatus consultum

Senate working committees


Current activity of the Senate

The Senate agenda gives to you access to the items currently discussed by the Senate, or going to be.


Senate Handbook

The Senate Handbook will provide for you all the rules applicable to the Senate.




Roman senate: the Senate in antiquity.

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