And, finally, the Senate claimed the right to proclaim a state of martial law by passing the so-called Senatus Consultum ultimum, a decree which authorized the magistrates to use any means whatsoever to preserve the state.
And, likewise, it fell to the Senate to deal with all sudden crises which constituted a menace to the welfare of the state, like the spread of the Bacchanalian associations which was ended by the Senatus Consultum of 186 B.
Juridical instruments, laws, constitutions of emperors, senatus consulta and the like appear in the various collections of Roman jurisprudence.
It was also in the form of a senatus consultum that the leges de imperio, on the accession of the emperors, seem to have been promulgated.
In the imperial age, laws in general were replaced bysenatus consulta or by imperial decrees.
The oldest Roman senatus consulta are those translated into the Greek language and containing treaties of alliance, as already mentioned.
The two oldest senatus consulta written in Latin are also preserved in a more or less complete form only by ancient authors; they are the sc.
Why should not the Senatus Populusque Romanus, whose initials still survived in uncial letters upon blocks of travertine and marble, be restored to place and power?
Senatus Consultus divides the National Guards into three bans, to include all capable men not already in military service.
Can Massachusettensis produce from the whole history of Rome, or from the Digest, one example of a Senatus consultum or a Plebiscitum laying taxes on the colony?
Sometimes the tribunes prevented the patricians from assembling for the election of the interrex, sometimes they forbade the interrex himself making the senatus consultus for the consular comitia.
In 361 only, a senatus consultus granted to each father of a family and to each free man seven acres of the territory which had just been conquered from the Veii.
Literæ nomine Senatus Anglicani Cromwellii Richardique ad diversos in Europa principes et Respublicas exaratæ a Joanne Miltono, quas nunc primum in Germania recudi fecit J.
In legislative measures, a senatus consultum was brought before the people by the consul, or the senator who originated the measure, after it had previously been exhibited in public for seventeen days.
Pliny says, "It became the third order in the state, and to the title of Senatus Populusque Romanus, there began to be added, et Equestris ordo.
The election of a magistrate, or the passing of a law, though made on the ground of a senatus consultum, yet required the sanction of the curiae.
With wearisome iteration the letters speak of nothing done, of business postponed, or of the passing of some senatus consultum, the utter futility of which is obvious even now.
Even after a letter full of the most important accounts of public business, including copies of senatusconsulta (ad Fam.
After which the Senatus Academicus sat down to rough plenty in the shape of rizzar'd haddocks and mustard, a sheep's head, a haggis, and other delicacies of Scotland.
The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy;" and I have no doubt the orphan boy can get some cold victuals in the kitchen, while the Senatus dines.
We made no headway at all, and I suppose we were scarce gotten a mile away from Cramond, when the whole Senatus Academicus was heard hailing, and doubling the pace to overtake its.
Sir,' said he, 'in the name of the Senatus of the University of Cramond, I confer upon you the degree of LL.
The Senatus superintends the teaching and discipline of the university, and consists of the principal and professors.
The Universities Act of 1858 recognised the office, but only as that of an ornamental head, acting as president of the assembly of professors constituting the Senatus Academicus.
Professor Simpson took a warm interest in medical politics, and made himself heard as a member of the Senatus of the University.
If any person interceded, the sentence was called "Senatus auctoritas," their judgment or opinion.
But if the contrary, it was simply called "Senatus consultum.
When a decree was made without any opinion being asked or given, it was called "senatus consultum per discessionem.
The senatus indictus was called for the dispatch of business upon any other day except the dies Comitialis, when the Senate were obliged to be present at the Comitia.
The senatus consultum of the 28th of Floréal, year 12, conferred on Napoleon the imperial dignity, and made it hereditary in his family.
The senatusconsultum of the 16th of Thermidor, year 10, named Bonaparte consul for life.
Had the Continent remained tranquil, it would already have been officially announced by a Senatus Consultum.
Such are the characteristics of men whose 'senatus consultum' bestows an Emperor on France, a King on Italy, makes of principalities departments of a Republic, and transforms Republics into provinces or principalities.
And there is an end of the Senatus Populusque Romanus.
He is the head of the 'gens togata;' of the 'Senatus Populusque Romanus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "senatus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
