Law enforcement in city of Rome (Principate and later) ?

[Tarbicus]

Caesar was killed in the portica of Pompey's theatre, which was on the Campus Martius, well outside of the Pomerium.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Which is what I came to believe, but in Rome, I was pointed out his murder place as the Basilica in side the city, apparantly. :?

I don't actually recall reading about him leaving the city the day of his murder to be honest though. I would have thought it would have been commented on in the account of his murder. I recall he left his lictors at home that day and walked through the city to the meeting place of the senate that day though. Someone handed him a note fortelling his murder, but he did not read it. ButI cannot recall them saying he left through the gates.........

[Tarbicus]

Did it look like this? http://ancienthistory.about.com/library ... y_rome.htm

Plutarch says:
"66 So far, perhaps, these things may have happened of their own accord; the place, however, which was the scene of that struggle and murder, and in which the senate was then assembled, since it contained a statue of Pompey and had been dedicated by Pompey as an additional ornament to his theatre, made it wholly clear that it was the work of some heavenly power which was calling and guiding the action thither. 2 Indeed, it is also said that Cassius, turning his eyes toward the statue of Pompey before the attack began, invoked it silently, although he was much addicted to the doctrines of Epicurus;109 3 but the crisis, as it would seem, when the dreadful attempt was now close at hand, replaced his former cool calculations with divinely inspired emotion. "

The statue was located in the scaenae frons of the theatre/temple, which Augustus later moved to the theatre itself.

Lacus Curtius places the complex in the Campus Martius.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/G ... ompei.html

Also see this map, which puts the theatre in the campus Martius:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... a_Plan.jpg

More - http://www.pompey.cch.kcl.ac.uk/History ... heater.htm

[D B Campbell]

Also see this map, which puts the theatre in the campus Martius:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... a_Plan.jpg

Very nice map, Tarb. Thanks for that!
(btw How come all the best ancient world maps are German? )

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Yes, yet when I asked if we were in the ancient campus martia, the answer was "NO" :lol: Guess I am smarter than my guide was....and he will probably read this soon enough! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :roll:

Thanks for providing that great map Tarb, it just confirmed what I knew before.....I guess I am too ready to believe anyone with a degree.... :o

[Sean Manning]

Maybe some of Cicero's letters would be relevant? When P. Clodius Pulcher started to organize his street gangs, did they carry weapons openly? And did Cicero attack them for this, or just for their batteries and intimidations?

During Catalina's first alleged conspiracy, Cicero shocked people by wearing a mail shirt under his toga to suggest that he feared assasination. It seems to have worked since Catalina lost that election, and Cicero was never charged.

I'm sure Romans kept their arms at home, too. The owners of gladiators probably kept their weapons within the city as well (thus all the anxieties whenever someone wanted to hire too many gladiators in the late Republic).

[hansvl]

Hi,

Perhaps this book can help you too: Hélène Ménard. Maintenir l'Ordre à Rome , 2004.

see here

Greets,

Hans

[Ceasar Augustus]

Do you think you could find a translation? I don't know French.