Glossary Terms

Question 1

Augustus

Answer 1

Venerable one

Question 2

Balnea

Answer 2

Small baths

Question 3

Caldarium

Answer 3

• Hot baths
• 2nd stage of bathing

Question 4

Caliga

Answer 4

Military boots

Question 5

Client

Answer 5

A person dependent on an aristocrat and offers services in exchange for money

Question 6

Cloaca Maxima

Answer 6

Rome’s sewer system

Question 7

Concilium Plebis

Answer 7

Assembly of Plebians

Question 8

Curia

Answer 8

Assembly of men

Question 9

Cursus Honorum

Answer 9

Ladder of honours

Question 10

Damnatio Memoriae

Answer 10

Condemning of the memory

Question 11

Domus Aurea

Answer 11

Nero’s palace

Question 12

Familia

Answer 12

Household

Question 13

Frigidarium

Answer 13

• Cold bath
• Third stage of the bathing process

Question 14

Gens

Answer 14

Clan / communal structure

Question 15

Imperator

Answer 15

Emperor / supreme leader

Question 16

Imperium

Answer 16

Power to command the military

Question 17

Magister Equitum

Answer 17

Commander of the cavalry

Question 18

Magister Militum

Answer 18

Commander of the foot troops

Question 19

Nobilitas

Answer 19

Families that had been noble for generations

Question 20

Pater Familias

Answer 20

Father of the household

Question 21

Pater Patriae

Answer 21

Father of the country

Question 22

Plebs

Answer 22

• Independent people outside the Gens system
• Non-aristocratic but not necessarily poor

Question 23

Princeps

Answer 23

Leader

Question 24

Proscription

Answer 24

Lists of individuals who were condemned to death without trial

Question 25

Quaestores Parricidii

Answer 25

Magistrates that held court for crimes

Question 26

Res Publica

Answer 26

Public thing, meaning the government was for the public

Question 27

Rex

Answer 27

King

Question 28

SPQR

Answer 28

- Senatus Populusque Romanorum - The senate and the people of Rome

Question 29

Tepidarium

Answer 29

- Lukewarm water - First stage of bathing

Question 30

Thermae

Answer 30

Baths

Question 31

Thermopolia

Answer 31

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