These are the levels for members. Anything with an * after it, is not historically based and are merely done for Regiani purposes. I will try to always update this:
1 Fasces (level 1). Any
centuriones,
decuriones,
evocati2 Fasces (level 2). Priestess and *
curialis3 Fasces (level 3). *
Praefectus cohortis (Auxiliary force leader)
4 Fasces (level 4). *Quaestors, *frumentarii tertius
5 Fasces (level 5). *legatus Augusti, *legatus, *curator, *flamin
6 Fasces (level 6). Praetor UrbsRomae of the city of Rome and procurator, *frumentarii princeps posterior
7 Fasces (level 7). *Praefectus of Aegyptus, *Legatus Classis of North, Central, East
8 Fasces (level 8). *Vicarius of Hispania, Africa, Britannia, Viennensis, Pannonia, Thracia, Asiana, Pontus and *Legatus Classis of West, *
fetialis (ambassador), *
frumentarii princeps castrorum peregrinorum 9 Fasces (level 9). *Vicari of Gallia, Italia, Oriens, and Moesia, *Rationibis
10 Fasces (level 10). *Tetrarchs, *Rationalus, *flamin dialis, *Stratores Augusti Praefectus, *Praetorian Praefect, *Rex sacrorum
12 Fasces (level 12). Consuls
24 Fasces (level 24). Dictator, Emperor
DECURIO, a Roman official title, used in three connexions. (I) A member of the senatorial order in the Italian towns under the administration of Rome, and later in provincial towns organized on the Italian model (see Cuai.~ 4). The number of decuriones varied in’ different towns, but was usually 100. The qualifications for the office were fixed in each town by a special law for that community (lex municipalis). Cicero (in Verr. 2. 49,120) alludes to an. age limit (originally thirty years, until lowered by Augustus to twenty-five),to a property qualification (cf. Pliny, Ep. i. 19. 2), and to certain conditions of rank. The method of appointment varied in different towns and at different periods. In the early municipal constitution ex-magistrates passed automatically into the’ senate of their town; but at a later date this Order was reversed, and membership of the senate became a qualification for the magistracy. Cicero (l.c.) speaks of the senate in the Sicilian towns as appointed by a vote of the township. But in most towns it was the duty of the chief magistrate to draw up a list (album) ‘of the senators every five years. The decuriones held office for life. They were convened by the magistrate, who presided as in the Roman senate. Their powers were extensive. In all matters the magistrates were obliged to act according to their direction, and in some towns they heard cases of appeal against judicial sentences passed by the magistrate. By the time of the municipal law of Julius Caesar (45 B.c.) special privileges were conferred on the decuriones, including the right to appeal to Rome for trial in criminal cases. Under the principate their status underwent a marked decline, The office was no longer coveted, and documents of the 3rd and 4th centuries show that means were devised to compel members of, the towns to undertake it. By the time of the jurists it had become hereditary and compulsory. This change was largely due to the heavy financial burdens which the Roman government laid on the municipal senates. (2) The president of a decuria, a subdivision of the curia (qv). (~l) An officer in the Roman cavalry, commanding a troop of ten men (decuria).
CENTURIO, (Eng., Centurion) in the ancient Roman army, an officer in command of a centuria, originally a body of a hundred infantry, later the sixtieth part of the normal legion. There were therefore in the legion sixty centurions, who, though theoretically subordinate to the six military tribunes, were the actual working officers of the legion. For the most part the centurions were promoted from the ranks: they were arranged in a complicated order of seniority; the senior centurion of the legion (primus pilus) was an officer of very high importance. Besides commanding the centuries of the legion, centurions were “seconded “for various kinds of special service, e.g. for staff employment, the command of auxiliaries.
EVOCATUS, the evocati were hand-picked corps of bodyguards and advisers for the emperors. The
Evocati or \"Recalled,\" were veterans of the legions who had retired but were ordered or summoned back into imperial service. In 44 BC, Octavian (Augustus) looked for all possible reliable troops and thus issued calls to former legionaries of Julius Caesar, now living in Campania on granted lands. He paid them 2,000 sesterces each and instructed them to march with him. In the subsequent campaigns they proved invaluable, lending their experience and opinions as well as their stabilizing influence on raw recruits hastily assembled for the war. Augustus made the
Evocati an important formation in his reign. Their numbers were never large, but the acceptance of a retired centurion into the corps was very prestigious. Their pay was good, they saw the emperor every day, and they had the right to carry a rod, just as the regular army did. The
Evocati were still in existence in 217 AD, when one of their number, Julius Martialis, took part in the assassination of Caracalla. It was rare for Praetorian centurions to be selected from sources outside the Guard. The most common route to the Praetorian centurionate was for a Guardsman to serve his 16 years, be retained as an evocatus (time-expired reservist), then be offered centurion positions first in the Vigiles, then the Urban Cohorts, finally returning to the Guard.
CURIALIS A curialis, though a
Roman citizen in the exercise of full civil rights, is unable
freely to bequeath his fortune to another Roman citizen belonging
to a different city: property passing out of the jurisdiction of
one curia into that of another is charged with a heavy special
payment to the former senate, and in fact remains \"obnoxious\" to
it (C. Th. XII. 1, 107); a later constitution enacted that at
least one-fourth of the property should remain in the hands of
the original curia. If a curialis wanted to sell land or slaves
employed in the cultivation of his estate he had to obtain leave
from the governor of the province (C. Th. Xii. 3, 1). Heiresses
were much hampered in the right to marry strangers outside their
late father\'s curia and had in such cases to relinquish
one-fourth part of their property. They deal with local control; philanthropy (liturgies); intermediary between ruler and ruled and are considered the mayors of the cities.
PRAEFECTUS COHORTIS A praefectus cohortis is a commander of an auxiliary infantry. The units under the command of a praefectus cohortis could be either numeri or auxilia. Some of these commanders were drawn from the tribal aristocracy, though most were recruited from the equestrian order. Command of a cavalry alae was only entrusted to men who had previously served as a praefectus cohortis and legionary tribunus.
FETIALIS fetialis -is, m. one of a college of priests responsible for formally making peace or declaring war. The Roman priests who sanctioned treaties and demanded satisfaction from the enemy before a formal declaration of war.
It was customary for the fetialis to carry in his hand a javelin pointed with steel, or burnt at the end and dipped in blood. This he took to the confines of the enemy\'s country, and in the presence of at least three persons of adult years, he spoke thus: Forasmuch as the state of the _____ has offended against the Roman People, the Quirites; and forasmuch as the Roman People the Quirites have ordered that there should be war with _____ and the Senate of the Roman People has duly voted that war should be made upon the enemy _____ : I, acting for the Roman People, declare and make actual war upon the enemy! So saying he flung the spear within the hostile confines. (Livy)
PRINCEPS CASTRORUM PEREGRINORUM was a centurion in command of the frumentarii at Rome. These were detachments of legionary soldiers who took rank as principales. They served as military couriers between the capital and provinces, political spies, and an imperial police. It was probably customary, at least when the tradition under discussion arose, for the frumentarii to take charge of persons who were sent to Rome for trial (Marquardt, Romische Staatsverwaltung, II, 491-94).
The Central Tetrarchy