For its part, the Senatorial optimates chose one of the consuls for eighty seven BC, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a patrician and once Marius's trusted lieutenant.
On the other side were the Senatorial optimates, allied with the assassins of Caesar or the so-called republicans, led by the silver-tongued old statesman Cicero.
Some also blame an unwritten rule of senatorial courtesy, which allows senators to block nominees who live in their home county from being considered, without giving a reason.
He came from an undistinguished equestrian family, equestrian referring to the class of Roman society that ranked below senatorial in the Roman social hierarchy.
A senatorial " smelling committee" was sent to ascertain Wilsons incapacity but came away deceptively reassured by an elaborate charade staged by the president and Dr. Grayson.
The erosion of the Republic arguably saw its first violent manifestation in the deaths of the Gracci brothers by their Senatorial opponents in 133 and 121 BC.
Tyler's stubbornness forced the state legislature to postpone the senatorial election; this upset the Whigs in Virginia, who refused to back him for the vice presidential nomination.
The annual elections continued as before, the legislative assemblies met as before, the senatorial class accepted Proconsulships and the Equestrian class continued to get rich thanks to its special relationship with the Princeps.
No matter what one might think of his politics or temper, Mr. Chase was a dramatic figure, of high senatorial rank, if also of certain senatorial faults; a valuable ally.
The senatorial class was composed of all descendants of former magistrates, but in principle restricted to those who, at least officially, stayed out of business life in order to play a role in the Senate.
This latter trait may have been why he was so favourably depicted by Tacitus, Suetonius and others, who were members of or had connections to the senatorial and political classes in Rome.
He went on to support Clay for president, despite Clay's role in the senatorial contest and despite the fact that Clay's nomination would weaken his own chances for the vice presidency.
Military tribunes were officers in the Roman army who ranked below the legate and above the centurion and was a traditional preparatory role for a career in the upper echelons of Roman Senatorial politics.
He had left his daughter free;but he did expect that, as the manner of noble Venetian ladies was, she would choose erelong a husband of senatorial rank or expectations; but in this he was deceived.