ROMAN ADMINISTRATIVE TERMS DURING THE PRINCIPATE
ROMAN ADMINISTRATIVE TERMS DURING THE PRINCIPATE

Summary/Abstract: The accomplishments of the Roman administration have resounded through the ages way beyond the Ancient times, and its extraordinary efficiency allow for it to be a fitting standard for the 21th century. One of the secrets of this administration was combining its excellent rigor and flexibility with militarization in order to give it organisational unity. Just like in our times, the Romans’ administration was split between central and local. Both halves of the administration – the central, domineering one and the local, or better said, provincial one -serviced an entire world, a world that had already gone beyond the borders of the Eternal City and became a global superpower stretched out across multiple continents. Our paper studies the main Roman administrative terms, which have a high occurence in Latin epigraphies. We will especially talk about those discovered on the territory of today’s Romania which have been grouped in the IDR collection (Inscriptions of Roman Dacia), but also about the most common ones during the Principate. We do not offer a mere dictionary description of the terms, which is why they are not organised in alphabetical order, but we group them by their importance in terms of their meaning: this refers to competencies, administrative structures and role in the Roman bureaucratic apparatus.

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