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The following is a list of dictators in ancient Rome as reported by ancient sources. Contemporary historians doubt whether some of these dictatorships actually occurred. In antiquity, the meaning of dictator was not pejorative but referred to one who ruled by dictat for a set period; rarely (as in case of Gaius Julius Caesar) it was a title for life. All dates and names are given as they appear in ''Magistrates of the Roman Republic'' by T.R.S. Broughton. Where a cause is not attested in ancient sources and is reconstructed by modern scholars, it is preceded by an asterisk (e.g., *''Rei gerundae causa''). Dicatators ''rei gerundae causa'' were appointed "for getting things done"; ''clavi figendi causa'', "for driving a nail" as part of a ritual at the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus; ''comitiorum habendorum causa,'' "for holding elections"; and ''ludorum faciendorum causa,'' "for holding the Roman games." Other causes are unique to the case at hand, with the possible exception of ''seditionis sedandae et rgc'', "for quieting sedition and getting things done."〔Marianne Hartfield argues that only Manlius Capitolinus was named dictator ''seditionis sedandae et rgc'' in 368 BC, and that it was his dictatorship that caused the Romans to institute new causes to distinguish between the traditional military office (''rei gerundae causa'') and other uses to which the powers of that office might be put. 〕 After 202, the office of Dictator, such as it was, became defunct, and the title went into abeyance for well over a century. The revival of the title by Sulla was attached to a very different office. In 43 BCE, the post of Dictator went into commission as the Second Triumvirate. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Roman dictators」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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