Central treasury of ancient Rome housed in the Temple of Saturn. During the republic (509–27 BC), two quaestors(deputies to council)  managed the treasury and the Senate controlled it.  

colleagues in an official or priestly office

the centre of all political activity in the Roman Republic. The senate met in the Curia, which was a part of the Comitium, and the consuls and other magistrates spoke to the Roman people from the Rostra, the speakers platform. Some of the most ancient monuments of archaic Rome has been found near or under the Comitium, such as the Vulcanal and the Lapis Niger, with the oldest known inscription in the Latin language

("advice of the senate") is the decision of the senate on a subject brought before it by a magistrate with the power to do so. In ancient times senatus consulta had no legal force, but in Nova Roma they are a form of binding law inferior to leges and decreta pontificum but superior to the edicta of magistrates.

ancient Roman symbol of the regal and later the magisterial authority. The fasces were cylindrical bundles of wooden rods, tied tightly together, from which an axe projected; they were borne by guards, called lictors, before praetors, consuls, proconsuls, dictators, and emperors.

 the veto which a magistrate might impose upon a motion carried by another magistrate of equal or lower rank. Only the dictator could not be obstructed by a veto since he had no equal or superior.

The overall Legionary commander. This post was generally appointed by the emperor, was a former Tribune and held command for 3 or 4 years, although could serve for a much longer period. In a province with only one legion, the Legatus was also the provincial governor and in provinces with multiple legions, each legion has a Legatus and the provincial governor has overall command of them all.

Laws

In Rome the original term for the office was probably magister populi (Master of the People [under Arms]) and it was essentially for a special purpose, varying from military command to presiding over elections and religious ceremonies, although the first was the commonest. The holder, unlike all other officials, had no colleague, only a lieutenant known as the ‘Master of the Horse (knights!)’ (magister equitum), and until the 1st century bc was limited to a six-month term, during which his authority (imperium) was superior to that of all others.

A law enacted in ancient Rome by the lower rank of citizens meeting in the assembly called the comitia tributa, under the presidency of a tribune or some other plebeian magistrate; a decree of the plebs. At first these decrees bound only the plebs, but by a law generally assigned to 449 b. c., and confirmed by later legislation (339 and 286 b. c.), their effect was extended to the patricians.

a person who acts in and with the authority and capacity of a magistrate, but without holding a magisterial office. A legal innovation of the Roman Republic, the promagistracy was invented in order to provide Rome with governors of overseas territories instead of having to elect more magistrates each year. Promagistrates were appointed by enates consultum; like all acts of the Roman Senate, these appointments were not entirely legal and could be overruled by the Roman assemblies.

he official records office of ancient Rome, and also housed the offices of many city officials. Situated within the Forum Romanum, it was on the front slope of the Capitoline Hill, below the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, to the southeast of the Arx and Tarpeian Rock. Within the building were the remains of the temple of Veiovis.

 Roman term for a sacred space marked out by the augurs. The templum was rectangular and aligned with the cardinal points. The front of the templum faced west. A building erected on this space could become a sanctuary of the gods or when the pontifex consecrated it. The rostra and curia were not.

the power given to the tribunes of the people in the 'Ancient Rome. At the time of 'Roman Empire was conferred, since the time of Augustus, also to all the Roman emperors. The reason for this lay in the allocation sacrosanctitas charge tribunes. In essence, the emperor wanted to ensure the inviolability of his office, besides giving the possibility to legislate fairly freely.