Talk:Roman dictator
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Out of curiosity, why is there a 120 year gap between Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus and Lucius Cornelius Sulla on this list?--Lucky13pjn 15:40, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)
- After the Second Punic War, the dictatorship was outlawed in favor of the senatus consultam ultimam (a Senate act that authorized the consuls to take whatever action was needed to defend the Republic). Sulla illegally used the title for himself, and Caesar followed suit; after his assassination, Marc Antony outlawed it again, but it was still offered one more time by the Senate, to Augustus (who wisely refused it). Kuralyov 14:34, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
What exactly does a dictor have to do with horses? Is the title "master of horses" literal? Horse-tender seems a menial job for a dicator. It can't possibly be literal, can it? --Menchi 07:32, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Magister equitum sounds to my Latin more like "master of the riders, the knights or the cavalry".
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- The Master of the Horse was not the same person as the Dictator, it was the Dictator's assistant. And yes, the name comes from the fact that, very early on in the Republic (when Rome was still essentially a city-state), the Master of the Horse's duties included taking care of the Dictator's stables. Kuralyov 14:34, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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- Not only that, but, since the Roman dictator was (at least in the old days) prohibited to command cavalry, the Master of the Horse had also this job. [[User:Muriel Gottrop|muriel@pt]] 20:20, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] recent additions
It should be noted that the voluminous anonymous addition is taken word for word from "A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities", John Murray, London, 1875, as found [1] here. How should that be annotated in the article? --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 6 July 2005 04:23 (UTC)yeah watever
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[edit] Official title
The Magister Equitum article says that the official title of Dictator was Magister Populi. It contradicts this article. What's right?--Nixer 11:56, 1 October 2006 (UTC)for real
[edit] Cicero
I thought Cicero had been a dictator also. In 64 BC the senate gave him "senatus consultum ultimum" for fighting against Catilina. That normally means: dictatorship. Cicero accepted it, I thought. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.117.192.163 (talk) 19:01, 18 December 2006 (UTC).
