Interregnum and Patrum Auctoritas

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ID10286675
AuthorsE Friezer (corresponding author)
Year1959
Volume12
Issue1
Pages301-329
Publication date1959-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMnemosyne (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-7074 • E-ISSN: 1568-525X
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/156852559x00248
OpenAlexW1987947520
LanguageEN
Citations received12

The usual conceptions of the interregnum. All descriptions of the interregnum known to me are roughly the same. Briefly put, they come to this: There exists a special arrangement in case no magistrate with the authority to preside over the comitia consularia should be available. Then the patrician members of the Senate meet and appoint one from among themselves as interrex. He will hold office for a term not exceeding five days, after which other patrician senators, one after the other, will succeed him in turn, until consuls or tribuni militum consulari potestate have been elected in the comitia centuriata. The theoretical background of this procedure, too, is always the same. De iure an interregnum will arise only in the absence of all magistratus patricii. Of the ordinary magistrates, only consuls or tribuni militum cp. are allowed to preside over the comitia consularia; failing these, all remaining patrician magistrates resign, with the result that the condition is fulfilled

Interregnum · Magistrate · Political science · Politics · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Studies and Legal History · Law

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