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  2. The Senate of the Roman Empire was a political institution in the ancient Roman Empire. After the fall of the Roman Republic , the constitutional balance of power shifted from the Roman Senate to the Roman Emperor .

  3. The Senate of ancient Rome. The Senate may have existed under the monarchy and served as an advisory council for the king. Its name suggests that it was originally composed of elderly men ( senes ), whose age and knowledge of traditions must have been highly valued in a preliterate society.

  4. Senators | PBS. Busts of Senators. Senators in the first century AD held much less power than their predecessors, although the Senate still had the right to confer the title of emperor....

  5. Although still used, the old formula senatus populusque Romanus (“the Senate and the Roman people”) had changed its meaning: in effect, its populusque Romanus portion now meant “the emperor.”. The “Roman people” had become the “Italian people,” and it was embodied in the person of Augustus, himself the native of an Italian town.

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