Overview
Auctoritas was authority based on prestige, recognition, experience, and moral weight rather than formal office alone.
Importance
The Senate claimed auctoritas, but in the late Republic military glory and popular support increasingly created rival forms of authority.
In the Livarva Trilogy
Caesar, Pompey, Cicero, and Cato all possess or seek auctoritas in different ways.
This first atlas entry is drafted from the Livarva manuscripts and will be expanded with exact chapter and source references in a later version.