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| Title: Roman Declaration of War in the Third and Second Centuries Secondary Title: Classical Philology Volume: 44, No. 1 Pages: 15-19 Type: Journal Article Year: 1949 Abstract: ius fetiale not defunct after 3rd C. BCE. Format for declarations of war altered to serve changing times. Legates now went on embassies with "conditional declarations of war" pre-approved by senate and people. New sequence of steps to official declarations = senatus censet, populus iubet, res repetuntur, bellum denuntiatur, bellum indicitur. As evidence: the Sardinia war motion following shortly after the First Punic War, and the interview between Aemilius Lepidus and Philip V at Abydus in 200. Conclusion: by the middle of the Third C., the denuntiatio belli had become the effective declaration of war. Keywords: Roman; War; Declaration; Warfare; Rome; Sardinia; Philip V; Aemilius Lepidus |