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Senatus consultum ultimum - Definition and Overview

A Senatus consultum ultimum ("Final decree of the Senate") was a decree of the Roman Senate during the Roman Republic passed in times of emergency. It was adopted after the end of the Second Punic War as a replacement for the dictatorship.

It was first passed during the rise to power of the younger Gracchi brother in 121 BC and subsequently during the Catiline Conspiracy, Clodius' desecration of the rites of Bona Dea in 63, and finally when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49.

Example Usage of consultum
Tupp_Ed: The senatus consultum ultimum. It basically said, everything is terrible, we're all on our own and the rules are suspended for a bit.
Taruryun: 再掲：Senatus consultum Nicom@m 「ニコマスを守るための元老院による宣言」「元老院によるニコマスな宣言」と訳される共和政ニコマス期の緊急法令の一つである。「元老院によるニコマス勧告」などとも呼ばれる。
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