| A | B |
|---|
| SPQR | senatus populusque Romanus |
| rostra | speaker's platform |
| consul | chief executive |
| praetor | judge |
| quaestor | treasury official |
| aedile | public works and entertainment |
| censor | take census |
| dictator | complete power for 6 months |
| Populares | people's party (democratic) |
| Optimates | party of the best men (republican) |
| senate | chief governing body in Rome |
| comitia curiata | oldest assembly |
| comitia centuriata | elected the higher magistrates |
| comitia tributa | elected the lower magistrates |
| tribune | elected to protect rights of plebeians |
| patricians | wealthy upper class |
| plebeians | common people |
| equites | class that had money for horse |
| proconsul | governor of province after consulship |
| cursus honorum | run of the offices |
| novus homo | first man in family to reach consulship |
| toga | characteristic garment of Roman citizen |
| candidatus | gleaming white |
| lictors | slaves who carried the fasces |
| fasces | bundle of rods with an axe in middle, symbol of power |
