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Welcome to spqrome

If you've ever come across T. Robert S. Broughton's Magistrates of the Roman Republic and wished it were easier to navigate, you're in the right place. Each link below leads to a specific year and its magistrates. For now, the dataset focuses mainly on the late Republic and includes the magistrates of the cursus honorum (i.e. quaestor, aedile, praetor, and consul) as well as the tribunes of the plebs.


Count of terms as of 2025-12-03
Reviewed terms Consuls Praetors Aediles Quaestors Tribunes of the Plebs
932 177 341 75 152 187
Consuls 177
Praetors 341
Aediles 75
Quaestors 152
Tribunes of the Plebs 187
Total magistrates 932
Total number of magistrates: 635

Reading the Magistrate Timeline

Every year "pill" below is clickable and will take you to the given year. Its coloured sections show the offices present (see legend), and the total height of the fill reflects how “busy” the year was, i.e. how many magistrates it had compared with the year with the highest count (which is filled completely).

You can toggle the colours in the legend to remove or add offices from the year pills.

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