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ACTA SENATUS, or COMMENTARII SENATUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 157 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACTA SENATUS, or See also:

COMMENTARII SENATUS  , minutes of the discussions and decisions of the See also:Roman See also:senate . Before the first consulship of See also:Julius See also:Caesar (59 B.C.), minutes of the proceedings of the senate were written and occasionally published, but unofficially; Caesar, desiring to See also:tear away the See also:veil of See also:mystery which gave an unreal importance to the senate's deliberations, first ordered them to be recorded and issued authoritatively . The keeping of them was continued by See also:Augustus, but their publication was forbidden (Suetonius, Augustus, 36) . A See also:young senator (ab actis senatus) was chosen to. draw up these Acta, which were kept in the imperial archives and public See also:libraries (See also:Tacitus, See also:Ann. v . 4) . See also:Special permission from the See also:city See also:praefect was necessary in See also:order to examine them . For authorities see ACTA DIURNA .

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