BIG DEAL SENATUS POPULUSQUE PHILIPPINENSIS

The Manila Times | October 3, 2005| | Copyright

Emblazoned on the standards that the Roman legions held aloft as they marched out of the Italian Peninsula to conquer much of what was then called the known world was the abbreviation SPQR. Signifying Senatus Populusque Romanus-Latin for The Roman Senate and the People-SPQR summed up how the ancient Romans regarded their city-state. An alternate translation for SPQR-Senatus Populusque Romae (The Senate and People of Rome)-expressed the same sentiment.

It was from the members of the Roman Senate (made up of the city's patres, meaning "fathers," from which the term "patrician" comes) and ...

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