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Expulsion from the Senate of the Roman Republic, C.319–50 BC Ex senatu eiecti sunt: Expulsion from the Senate of the Roman Republic, c.319–50 BC Lee Christopher MOORE University College London (UCL) PhD, 2013 1 Declaration I, Lee Christopher MOORE, confirm that the work presented in this thesis is my own. Where information has been derived from other sources, I confirm that this has been indicated in the thesis. 2 Thesis abstract One of the major duties performed by the censors of the Roman Republic was that of the lectio senatus, the enrolment of the Senate. As part of this process they were able to expel from that body anyone whom they deemed unequal to the honour of continued membership. Those expelled were termed ‘praeteriti’. While various aspects of this important and at-times controversial process have attracted scholarly attention, a detailed survey has never been attempted. The work is divided into two major parts. Part I comprises four chapters relating to various aspects of the lectio. Chapter 1 sees a close analysis of the term ‘praeteritus’, shedding fresh light on senatorial demographics and turnover – primarily a demonstration of the correctness of the (minority) view that as early as the third century the quaestorship conveyed automatic membership of the Senate to those who held it. It was not a Sullan innovation. In Ch.2 we calculate that during the period under investigation, c.350 members were expelled. When factoring for life expectancy, this translates to a significant mean lifetime risk of expulsion: c.10%. Also, that mean risk was front-loaded, with praetorians and consulars significantly less likely to be expelled than subpraetorian members. In Ch.3 and 4 we discuss the mechanics of the lectio and review legislative and personal responses to expulsion, including the observations that censors were sensible to a number of societal constraints, among them the opinions of outside actors; also, that expulsion was not necessarily an insuperable setback. Part II comprises a single chapter, a catalogue of all known named praeteriti. An Appendix presents all source testimonia that allude to each praeteritus’ expulsion. The chronological range is bookended by the promulgation of the plebiscitum Ovinium (which gave censors the responsibility of performing the lectio) and the final censorship of the functioning Republic. 3 Contents INTRODUCTION 11-17 PART I – LECTIO SENATUS Chapter 1. Demographics (I): The definition of ‘praeteritus’ and qualification for the Senate 19-49 Chapter 2. Demographics (II): Frequency and risk of being expelled 50-78 Chapter 3. Lectio senatus: Procedure and timing 79-126 A. The procedure of the lectio senatus 79 1. Choosing the princeps senatus 79 2. Choosing the rest of the Senate 82 I. Confidentiality and publication 82 II. Notatio: Nota and subscriptio – the mark and the reason for the mark 84 III. Amelioration of censure 91 IV. Validity 91 V. Cognitiones apud censores 92 B. The timing of the lectio senatus 100 Chapter 4. Responses to expulsion 127-197 1. Primary and secondary targets, and the blurred distinction between the two 127 2. Regimen morum as a factor of censorial (un)popularity 131 3. Constraints and restraints on censoria potestas (I): 142 Legal and quasi-legal devices; ‘blunting the censors’ pens’ I. Ignominia, not infamia; iudicia, not res iudicatae 142 II. The lex Aemilia de censura minuenda of 434 146 4 III. The lex Marcia de censoribus of c.265 148 IV. The lex Clodia de censoria notione of 58 148 V. Vulnerability to intercessio and sacred law, and the issue of obnuntiatio 152 VI. Vulnerability to coercitio and prosecution, and the question of sponsiones 160 VII. The collegiate nature of decision-making 167 VIII. Assessments not binding on subsequent censors 168 4. Constraints and restraints on censoria potestas (II): Other normative devices 170 I. The potential for retaliation through physical violence 170 II. The potential for retaliation through politics and through the courts 172 5. Other responses 177 I. Pudor et verecundia 177 II. Public responses 184 III. Restoration: Re-election and adlection 192 PART II – REGISTER OF THE EXPELLED Chapter 5. Praeteriti certi; case studies of the expelled 199-316 1. L. An(to)nius 202 2. P. Cornelius Cn.f. P.n. Rufinus 204 3. L. Caecilius L.f. L.n. Metellus 208 4. (P.?) Manilius (P.f.?) 210 5. L. Quinctius T.f. L.n. Flamininus 225 6. L. Cornelius P.Africani.f. P.n. Scipio 226 7. M. Cornelius Scipio Maluginensis 230 8. M. Fulvius (Q.f. M.n.?) Flaccus or Nobilior 234 9. Cn. Tremellius 239 10. C. Atinius C.f. Labeo Macerio 247 11. Cassius Sabaco 252 12. C. Licinius P.f. (P.n.?) Geta 254 5 13. M. Duronius 258 14. C. Antonius M.f. M.n. Hybrida 260 15. M’. Aquillius M’.f. M’.n. (Florus?) 265 16. P. Cornelius P.f. P.n. Lentulus Sura 272 17. Q. Curius 277 18. Cn. Egnatius Cn.f. (C.n.) 281 19. Ti. (Albius?) Gutta 288 20. P. Popillius 298 21. M. Valerius M.f. M’.n. Messalla Niger 300 22. C. Ateius (L.f.) Capito 303 23. C. Sallustius Crispus 307 24. & 25. Ignotus (tr.pl. ann. incert.) & M. Lucilius 312 CONCLUSIONS 317-320 APPENDIX 322-350 Praeteriti testimonia 322 SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 351-398 1. Ancient sources 351 2. Modern bibliography ` 360 6 Abbreviations used in this work I. Journals AAntHung =Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae AC =L’antiquite Classique AClass =Acta Classica AHB =Ancient History Bulletin AHR =American Historical Review AIRF =Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae AJA =American Journal of Archaeology AJAH =American Journal of Ancient History AJPh =American Journal of Philology Am J Leg Hist =American Journal of Legal History AncW =Ancient World Annales ESC =Annales: Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations ANRW =Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt ANSMN =American Numismatic Society Museum Notes BCH =Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique BICS =Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies BMCR =Bryn Mawr Classical Review BSL =Bollettino di Studi Latini C&M =Classica et Mediaevalia CJ =Classical Journal CP =Classical Philology CQ =Classical Quarterly 7 CR =Classical Review CW =Classical World DHA =Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne DUJ =Durham University Journal EA =Epigraphica Anatolica G&R =Greece and Rome GRBS =Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies HSPh =Harvard Studies in Classical Philology IJCT =International Journal of the Classical Tradition JRS =Journal of Roman Studies LCM =Liverpool Classical Monthly MAAR =Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome MEFRA =Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome, Antiquité MH =Museum Helveticum NC =Numismatic Chronicle OpRom =Opuscula Romana PACA =Proceedings of the African Classical Association PAPhS =Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society PCA =Proceedings of the Classical Association PCPhS =Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society PP =La Parola del Passato PSQ =Political Science Quarterly REA =Revue des Études Anciennes REL =Revue des Études Latines RhM =Rheinisches Museum für Philologie RN =Revue Numismatique 8 SHT =Studia Humaniora Tartuensia SNR =Revue Suisse de Numismatique SPh =Studies in Philology TAPhA =Transactions of the American Philological Association TAPS =Transactions of the American Philosophical Society TRG =Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis WS =Wiener Studien ZPE =Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik II. 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