Since Mommsen, it has been a tenet of Roman history that Augustus transformed the ‘senatorial order’ into a hereditary class, which encompassed senators, their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in the male line. This paper shows that the idea of a hereditary ordo senatorius is a myth without foundation in the evidence. Augustus and his successors conferred new rights and duties upon relatives of senators, but did not change their formal rank. Moreover, the new regulations applied not to three generations of descendants, but only to persons who stood under a senator's patria potestas during his lifetime. Emperors protected the honour and property of these filii familias of senators, in order to incentivise them to participate in politics and invest their wealth into munificence. The Supplementary Material available online gives all known early imperial holders of the title clarissimus vir in the province of Africa (Supplementary Appendix 1), all known early imperial clarissimi iuuenes (Supplementary Appendix 2) and all known early imperial clarissimi pueri (Supplementary Appendix 3).

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大法官席位的遗传

自蒙森以来，罗马历史的一条信条是奥古斯都将“元老院秩序”转变为世袭阶级，其中包括元老院及其子女、孙辈和曾孙辈。这篇论文表明，遗传的想法参议员勋章是一个没有证据基础的神话。奥古斯都和他的继任者赋予参议​​员亲属新的权利和义务，但没有改变他们的正式等级。此外，新规定并非适用于三代后裔，而仅适用于参议员手下的人。父权在他的一生中。皇帝保护这些人的荣誉和财产亲人参议员，以激励他们参与政治并将他们的财富投资于慷慨。在线提供的补充材料提供了所有已知的早期皇室称号持有者口蹄疫病毒在非洲省（补充附录 1），所有已知的早期帝国克拉里西米尤内斯（补充附录 2）和所有已知的早期帝国克拉里西米普埃里（补充附录 3）。