Consular Fasti, and the Triumphs Celebrated from Romulus the King down to Tiberius Caesar

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Original title: Fasti consulares, ac triumphi acti à Romulo Rege usque ad Ti. Cæsarem A folio antiquarian, epigraphic and chronological work in three parts, not a narrative history. It comprises (1) a tabular register of Roman consuls, censors, dictators and triumphs running from Romulus to Tiberius, reconstructed principally from the inscribed marbles known as the Fasti Capitolini recovered from the Roman Forum in 1546–1547; (2) a year-by-year Commentarius on Roman affairs, reckoned from the fourth year after the foundation of the City to the death of Tiberius, collating consular name-forms as given in Livy, Dionysius, Diodorus, Cassiodorus, the Sicilian fasti, Cuspinianus and the Capitoline fragments, and treating campaigns, triumphs and ovations, censuses and lustra, dictatorships and seditions; and (3) a closing treatise, De nominibus Romanorum, on the technical vocabulary of Roman personal nomenclature (praenomen, nomen, cognomen, agnomen) and its epigraphic sigla. Throughout, the words of the inscriptions are set in larger type and the author's own supplements and conjectures in smaller, and the work expounds the technical vocabulary of Roman public law — res publica, imperium, auspicium, potestas, the ius triumphandi, the dictatorship, and the title Imperator — as it traces the annual magistracies down to the point where power ceased to be conferred annually. The volume carries dedications to Ercole II d'Este, to Doge Lorenzo Priuli and to Matteo Dandolo, a printer's errata address, and a closing index of things and memorable words. 👉 Read our introductory primer, full report, and finding guide here 📜 View the original source file This text was transcribed and translated as part of the ExLatinis project—an effort by Leo to make English translations of every published text in Latin in early modern Europe (between 1450 and 1750) available to the public for free online.

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