Roman citizen
Senate's represented subject
Roman citizen refers to a person who held citizenship in ancient Rome, with legal rights including voting, holding office, and protection from arbitrary punishment.
Roman citizenship could be acquired by birth, grant, or military service, and was eventually extended throughout the empire.
The phrase often appears in historical contexts: As a Roman citizen, Paul could not be flogged without trial.
Saint Paul famously invoked his citizenship to appeal directly to Caesar.
- RepublicState without monarchy
- senatorUpper chamber member
- Twelve TablesEarly Roman legal code
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- patria potestasFather's power over family
plebeian · Latin language · census · Empire · Social War · legal status · toga · patrician · Ostia · equestrian · Augustus · tribune · voting rights · civic duty · Pompeii · consul · public baths · bread and circuses
Roman citizenslave
Owned human, forced laborer
non-citizen · foreigner · captive · bondsman · subject
Roman citizenbarbarian
Uncivilized, crude person
foreigner · outsider · enemy alien · stateless person · Carthaginian
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