Practice question · Put in order
Assemble the cursus honorum, the ladder of republican offices, bottom to top.
- Censor (the elder statesman’s capstone)
- Consul (the summit)
- Quaestor (finance)
- Aedile (games and public works)
- Praetor (courts and armies)
Hints
- The ladder runs from financial office upward to supreme command.
- Minimum ages and waiting periods governed each rung.
Show the answer
- Quaestor (finance)
- Aedile (games and public works)
- Praetor (courts and armies)
- Consul (the summit)
- Censor (the elder statesman’s capstone)
Why
Each rung had a minimum age and a waiting period, one more brake against any man rising too fast. Caesar’s generation treated the ladder as a formality; Pompey skipped most of it at the head of an army.
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