| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:government_agency gptkb:legislative_body
 
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                                | gptkbp:country | gptkb:Ancient_Rome 
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                                | gptkbp:dissolved | AD 603 
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                                | gptkbp:established | 7th century BC 
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                                | gptkbp:function | gptkb:international_relations legislative authority
 financial control
 advisory body to magistrates
 religious oversight
 
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                                | gptkbp:historicalPeriod | gptkb:Roman_Empire gptkb:Roman_Republic
 Roman Kingdom
 
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                                | gptkbp:location | gptkb:Rome 
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                                | gptkbp:mainLanguage | gptkb:Latin 
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                                | gptkbp:meetingPlace | gptkb:Curia_Julia 
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                                | gptkbp:membership | patricians plebeians (later periods)
 
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                                | gptkbp:nativeName | gptkb:Senatus 
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                                | gptkbp:notableEvent | gptkb:reforms_of_Sulla assassination of Julius Caesar
 conflict with the populares
 passing of the Senatus Consultum Ultimum
 reforms of Augustus
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableMember | gptkb:Cicero gptkb:Julius_Caesar
 gptkb:Gaius_Gracchus
 gptkb:Marcus_Junius_Brutus
 gptkb:Tiberius_Gracchus
 gptkb:Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla
 Augustus
 Cato the Younger
 Scipio Africanus
 
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                                | gptkbp:numberOfMembers | varied (100 to 900+) 
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                                | gptkbp:powers | ratify treaties appoint provincial governors
 control public finances
 declare war and peace
 issue decrees (senatus consulta)
 oversee foreign policy
 supervise religion
 
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                                | gptkbp:presidedBy | gptkb:Princeps_Senatus gptkb:Censors
 Consuls
 
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                                | gptkbp:relatedTo | gptkb:Roman gptkb:Roman_Forum
 gptkb:Curia_Julia
 gptkb:Curia_Hostilia
 gptkb:SPQR
 gptkb:Roman_assemblies
 gptkb:Curia_Cornelia
 gptkb:Roman_Constitution
 Roman magistrates
 
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                                | gptkbp:successor | gptkb:Byzantine_Senate 
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                                | gptkbp:symbol | gptkb:SPQR 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Hadrianus gptkb:Decimus_Junius_Brutus_Albinus
 gptkb:Gaius_Julius_Caesar_(the_dictator)
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 6 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | Senate of Rome 
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