(SC; sometimes senatus sententia: ILS 18; 35a; 8208; informally also senatus decretum, e.g. Cic. Mil. 87; Cic. Sest. 32, or in archaic form senati decretum: Sall. Cat. 30,3 and passim). The formal resolution by which the Roman Senate pronounced advice or instructions at the request (consulere) of magistrates; while not binding legally, it was in practice: in the Imperial Period, to some extent it even acquired f…
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Kierdorf, Wilhelm (Cologne) and
Klose, Dietrich (Munich),
“Senatus consultum”, in:
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