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Ancient Worlds - BBC Two 

Episode 5 “The Republic of Virtue”

The initials SPQR, “Senatus Populusque Romanus” (translates into English as “the Senate and the Roman people”) refer to the government of the ancient Roman Republic, and they are used as an official emblem of the modern-day municipality of Rome; -can still be seen all over Rome today.

The title’s date of establishment is unknown, but it first appears in inscriptions of the Late Republic and continued in use under the Roman Empire.

The Senate and the Roman people, the two legal entities mentioned, Senātus and the Populus Rōmānus, are sovereign when combined However, where populus is sovereign alone, Senātus is not. The Romans believed that all authority came from the people.

Rome, Italy

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    And then… there were rulers like Caligula and Commodus.

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