Aristocratic Ethos

SPQR –

Senate – no legally binding authority, Senatus Consultum

Ex S. C.

Cursus honorum, division, pedarii

Imperium

Collegiality

Prorogation – consul, proconsul praetor = proprietor, quaestor = proquaestor

Maius imperium

Praetors = provincial governors

Publicani

military experience

legatus, praefectus (legate, prefect)

financial experience

Knights Equites (1800), publicans

legal experience

Rhetorical experience

patron - client relationships

C. Julius C.f. Caesar

C. Julius C. libertus Epagathus

C. Julius C.f. C.n.

consulship, enobles your family, consular nobility - get to command an army, hopefully win a victory in the field

imperator (induperator) triumphing Roman general

Epagathus

manumission