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JULIUS CAESAR ROMAN TERMS
1. CONSUL:
Either of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, elected for a term of one year.
2. FEAST OF LUPERCAL:
A Roman festival supervised by priests on February 15th celebrating the god of fertility. The festival
included a race in which men dressed in sacrificial goat skins would run through spectators in the
streets, and their touch was thought to cure sterility.
3. FORUM:
The public square or marketplace of an ancient Roman city that was the assembly place for judicial
activity and public business.
4. IDES:
In the ancient Roman calendar, the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day
of the other months.
5. PATRICIAN:
A member of one of the noble families of the ancient Roman Republic, which before the 3rd century
B.C. had exclusive rights to the Senate and the magistracies (a position where one has the power to
enforce or create laws)
6. PLEBEIAN:
Of or relating to the common people of ancient Rome
7. PROVINCE:
Any of various lands outside Italy conquered by the Romans and administered as self-contained units.
8. SENATE:
The supreme council of state of the ancient Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire
9. TRIBUNE:
(A) An officer of ancient Rome elected by the plebeians to protect their rights from arbitrary acts of the
patrician magistrates.
(B) a protector or champion of the people.
10. TRIUMVIRATE:
A government of three officers or magistrates functioning jointly
11. STOICISM
A philosophy that focuses on
 Duty, self-discipline, and subjection to the natural order of things
 Civic obligations; duty BEFORE self!
 Repressing all emotions—do not outwardly show happiness, sadness, etc.
 Speaking in a calm and emotionless manner
12. EPICUREAN
A philosophy that focuses on
 Human freedom; “I am the center of my universe” attitude
 being good only to increase one’s own happiness; self BEFORE duty!
 Eliminating fear from life, especially fear of death and the fear of the supernatural (the gods
live in their own world and are too busy to bother with us on earth).
 Speaking in a vibrant and emotional manner