Legati. Officers of the general's suite corresponding to our generals of division.
Libertini. The class of freedmen known as Liberti, with reference to freeborn men, Libertini with reference to each other.
Municipia. Conquered Italian towns having the right of acquiring property in the Roman State (Commercium), and marrying the daughter of a Roman citizen (Connubium), but unable to acquire the honours of the State (Jus Honoris), or to vote at Rome (Jus Suffragii).
Negotiatores. Money-lenders.
Nobiles. The offspring of men who had held a curule office.
Optimates. The senatorial party at and after the era of the Gracchi.
Patres. 1. Originally Cives Romani, the governing body at Rome. 2. Afterwards the Senate.
Patronus. A Pater with reference to a Client. A Dominus with reference to a Libertus.
Perduellio. Abuse of official position injurious to the State.
Pilum. A wooden shaft 4 feet long, with an iron head 2 feet 3 inches long. There was also a lighter kind.