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Who were some senator members at the time of Titus' rule in Rome?

2007-06-20 12:48:41 · 3 answers · asked by Nikita K 2 in Arts & Humanities History

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His brother, Domitian who subsequently ascended to the Imperium.

"The name of Titus is associated with a triumphal arch erected in his honour by his brother Domitian after his death. The inscription above the arch says SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMANUS DIVO TITI DIVI VESPASIANI F.(ilio) VESPASIANO AUGUSTO (the Senate and the people of Rome to the divine Titus Vespasian Augustus, son of the divine Vespasian)."1.

By implication in their titles and relationship to Titus' father, Vespasian, we can assume two others: Antonius Primus, commander of the Sixth Legion in Pannonia, and Cornelius Fuscus, imperial procurator in Illyricum.2.

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2007-06-20 13:15:06 · answer #1 · answered by oda315 4 · 1 2

The Senate governed the Roman Republic. In the beginning, only a small group of people called the Patricians could be senators, but the rest of Rome's people, called the Plebeians, complained and eventually they won the right to be made senators too. You had to be very rich to be a senator, and you were expected to spend a lot of your money helping the Roman state. In return, you could boast about how generous you were, and this made you lots of friends who would vote for you in elections. Only men were allowed to be senators.
The job of the Senate was to make laws and decide what Rome was going to do. It was led by two consuls, who were elected for a year by the Assembly of the Roman people. Every senator wanted to be elected consul, so there was lots of competition for the post. When Rome became an empire, the jobs of the Senate and the consuls were taken over by the emperor, but people still wanted to be senators and consuls all the same.
In dire emergencies, the Romans elected a dictator. He could order people around like an Emperor, but he was only allowed to rule for six months. This was supposed to stop him from making himself Emperor, but then Julius Caesar managed to get himself made Dictator for Life, and Augustus just ignored the rule and called himself Princeps, which means "first citizen".

2007-06-24 10:52:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

First off, I do not know. You may be able to find some mentioned in Suetonius's "Lives of the Twelve Caesars" under his lives of Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian.

2007-06-20 15:15:32 · answer #3 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0 2

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