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Roman Calendar - July 15: Transvectio equitum

Annual parade of young men of Roman equites class through Rome. Parade commemorated Roman victory at the battle of Lake Regilius (496 BCE) but it was also a sort of military review of Roman youth. The procession commenced from the temple of Mars on Via Appia and stopped at the temple of Castor and Pollux on Forum Romanum. Tradition began in 304 BCE but it waned during the Republican era.  Augustus revived the ceremony and during imperial era it developed into a quite a spectacle. According to sources some 5000 young equites participated in the parade.

There was no written constitution. The Republic evolved from the struggle between the Senate and the People - Senatus Populusque Romanus - SPQR.

The Senate was the governing body, largely in the hands of the patricians. It prepared proposals to bring before the people, passed decrees (senatus consulta), dealt with emergencies, controlled finances and building contracts, appointed magistrates to provinces, directed foreign relations, and supervised state religion. 

The resolutions of the people could have the force of law, but the Senate was allowed greater control. There were four assembles: formal duties, elected magistrates, elected lesser magistrates, passed plebiscite (Latin: comitia curiata, comitia centuriata, comitia tribute, comitia plebis).

A third class emerged (originally from Rome’s cavalry) to engage in trade and finance. These businessmen acquired more political influence and became wealthy. By the time of Cicero, equestrians (also known as equites or knights) could enter the Senate. Cicero tried to reconcile the three classes (senators, equites and plebs) by his concordia ordinum (harmony of the classes).

A magistrate was an official elected annually by the people. Offices were held in a strict order - cursus honorum. After ten years of military service, a young Roman man could begin on the lowest rung of the ladder as follows:

Quaestor - administered finance and maintained public records

Aedile - maintained roads, water supply, and organised games and festivals

Praetor - civil judge, could introduce laws

Consul - commanded army, conducted elections, presided over Senate, carried out decrees

Other magistrates include:

Tribune - defended rights of the common people and had right of veto

Censor - conducted census every five years, conducted purification, revised roll of senators

Dictator - ruled in crisis (maximum of 6 months) and conducted military and domestic matters

Imperium (supreme power) was held by consuls, praetors and dictators

Potestas (power to enforce laws) was held by all magistrates

4: What media does your character enjoy? (For characters in settings that aren’t modern Earth, could be media from their home setting or what they’d like in a modern Earth AU)

In universe, Swift likes watching sports and competitions. Archery, horse racing, team sports, those kinds of things. In a modern setting she'd enjoy things like cooking, home renovation or travel shows and a good literary novel from time to time.

13: What Pokémon would be on your OC’s team and/or what would be their preferred type?

Grass types probably fit her best because she used to live in the wilderness as a wolf (and she's a ranger), though I can see fairy, normal & fighting types suiting her as well. Ideal team: Shiftry, Abomasnow, Lycanroc, Decidueye, Morgrem and Wooloo.

27: In a murder mystery, what role would your OC play? (e.g. detective, sidekick, wacky suspect, rival investigator who gets in thew way, red herring, true culprit)

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