Notable municipal

The municipal notable constitutes an social environment, which animated the municipal life, at the present time constitutes one of the principal research centers of interest. It is hardly known but by the epigraphy.

Who are they?

The notable municipal ones, like the senators and the knights, constituted an order. To form part of it, it was necessary:

to be landowner (within the limits of the city generally); several were moreover owners of workshops or made trade.
To fill of the conditions of standing and taxable quota (less than 400000 sesterces, variable amount following the cities)
to belong to the local senate.

There exists a specific mentality to this medium: its members were attached to their city, their province and also to the empire and with its chief. They sought especially peace, and the empire had brought this benefit to them. The municipal life was organized according to the assemblies and of the magistratures.

Assemblies and magistratures

a broad assembly: the populus gathered all the free men and adults, but it had only few capacities (acclamations).
a narrow assembly: the order of let us décurions exerted really the power; it gathered all the owners of the city, large and small, and the magistrates were appointed by him and taken in its center.
Of the magistrates:

the questeur (one in theory) managed municipal finances.
the municipal officials took care on the public buildings and ensured the police force.
the duumvirs “said the right” and controlled the acts of the other magistrates.
the quinquennial duumvirs, elected every five years, returned justice, supervised the other magistrates and established the municipal album.

Of the priests: the flamine (imperial worship) and the sacerdos (worship of the municipal divinities).

Décurion
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Notable municipal

Who are they?

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