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 | | In the late Republic, the Senate came to avoid the dictatorate by resorting to a senatus consultum de republica defendenda, the so-called senatus consultum ultimum which declared martial law and empowered the consuls to "take care that the Republic should come to no harm", according to Cicero's first In Catilinam oration. |
 | | Senate, cursus honorum, Byzantine Senate, consul, praetor, censor, tribune, aedile, quaestor, Pontifex Maximus, princeps senatus, interrex, procurator, Roman dictator, master of the horse |
 | | Tradition held that the Senate was first established by Romulus, the mythical founder of Rome, as an advisory council consisting of the 100 heads of families, called Patres ("Fathers") from which the term Patrician would later come. |
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