senatorial order

He allowed new members into the equestrian and senatorial orders.

He had to earn his way from patrician to the more prestigious senatorial order.

At the same time, equestrians increasingly replaced the senatorial order in the top commands.

There was a slum area adjoining the barracks that could be flattened by senatorial order.

When a jury is composed entirely of senators, it favors those of the senatorial order.

The senate did, however, retain its legislative powers over public games in Rome, and over the senatorial order.

All Counts were automatically members of the Senatorial Order.

Lucius' achievements enabled his son Manius to be adlected to the senatorial order.

As regards the military, members of the senatorial order (senatorii) exclusively filled the following posts:

The senatorial order of the 4th century was thus the equivalent of the equestrian order of the Principate.

Pope Gregory I, in a sermon from 593, lamented the almost complete disappearance of the senatorial order and the decline of the prestigious institution.

Membership of the senatorial order was a prerequisite to attain positions within the cursus honorum, and to gain entry into the Roman Senate.

Naturally the senatorial orders had said that Quintus Caepio would subordinate himself and his troops to the imperium of the year's consul.

Members of the senatorial order were distinguished by a broad reddish-purple stripe edging their togas - the formal dress of all Roman citizens.

Publius Canutius or Cannutius was described by Cicero as the most eloquent orator of the senatorial order.

The Emperor or the Senate itself could also issue a decree to grant a man not born into the Senatorial order a seat in the Senate.

The office of fiscal procurator was always held by an equestrian, unlike the office of governor, which was reserved for members of the higher senatorial order.

Nevertheless, though the senatorial order came to hate and fear him, the evidence suggests that he remained popular with the army and the common people for much of his reign.

The man governing the area, Lucius Furius Purpurio, following senatorial orders, disbanded all but 5,000 men in his army and took up defenses at Ariminum.

The Senate did retain its legislative powers over public games and the senatorial order, as well as the power to try cases, especially treason, if the Emperor gave permission.

A member of the senatorial order in the Italian towns under the administration of Rome, and later in provincial towns organized on the Italian model.

However, it also suggests that he also realized the likely limitations that the social compact still imposed on men originating from outside the charmed circle of the Senatorial Order.

It developed as an alternative to the cursus honorum of the senatorial order for enabling the social mobility of equestrians and identifying those with the aptitude for administration.

Indeed, the senatorial order, which was hereditary, was itself partly defined by wealth, as any outsider wishing to join it had to meet a very high property qualification (250,000 denarii).

Manumission of slaves;patrons & clients;freedmen -Augustan age a period of "rapid & irreversible social change": changes in composition of senatorial order, expansion of equestrian order.