Ah they and welcome to Emperor's of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.

I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is

Riana Evans, an associate professor in Classic San

Ancient History from Latrobe University.

This is episode C.C.X. I. I. I. and part four of the Catalan conspiracy, the

championship of the oppressed.

Catalan and Cicero draw their lines of battle in the Senate, with Cadeline claiming to represent the will of the wretched and destitute.

But his attacks on Cicero, directly or indirectly, earn him many enemies, and he is forced to flee the city of Rome.

He's Rianna Evans.

So Cicero decides or it is decided that the best way that he can confront

Cataline is with more power from the Senate because Cicero

wants to do things by the books.

He does and he's been pushing for it for a while.

In a way the only way to do it by the book is by going at the extreme

end of the book you could say. I'm mixing and cooking the book. Well going for

something that we call the Sinatus Consultum

which means the final or last or most extreme decree of the Senate.

So this Sinatus Consultum Ultimum, the final decree, gives the console, i.e. Cicero, the ultimate power in the time of an emergency.

It's called by Salas, for example, the most extensive powers that Roman custom allows it to

entrust two magistrates. The decree authorizes them to levy troops and

conduct war to apply unlimited force to allies and citizens alike.

I mean that's really extreme and he goes on without it a resolution of the popular

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