The office was generally held by young men intending to follow the cursus honorum to high political office, traditionally after their quaestorship but before their praetorship.

The cursus honorum comprised a mixture of military and political administration posts.

The cursus honorum began with ten years of military duty in the Roman cavalry ( the equites ) or in the staff of a general who was a relative or a friend of the family.

The following steps of the cursus honorum were achieved by direct election every year.

While part of the cursus honorum, this step was optional and not required to hold future offices.

Another office not officially a step in the cursus honorum was the princeps senatus, an extremely prestigious office for a patrician.

* Diagram of the cursus honorum

When Augustus died in 14, Claudius — then 23 — appealed to his uncle Tiberius to allow him to begin the cursus honorum.

Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Innocent IX, he graduated from the Collegio Romano and followed a conventional cursus honorum, following his uncle Girolamo Pamphilj as auditor of the Rota, and like him, attaining the dignity of Cardinal-Priest of Sant ' Eusebio, in 1629.

A quaestor (; ) was a type of public official in the " cursus honorum " system who supervised financial affairs.

The office of quaestor was adopted as the first official post of the cursus honorum.

This tribunate was often a first, but optional, step in a young man's senatorial career ( see cursus honorum ).

Membership of the senatorial order was a prerequisite to attain the standard succession of offices known as the cursus honorum, and to gain entry into the Roman Senate.

However, he omitted the military tribunate from the cursus honorum and was forced to delay his quaestorship until he had reached the required minimum age of 25.

The elder boy, Titus Flavius Sabinus entered public life and pursued the cursus honorum.

Crassus was rising steadily up the cursus honorum, the sequence of offices held by Roman citizens seeking political power, when ordinary Roman politics were interrupted by two events – first, the Third Mithridatic War, and second, the Third Servile War, which was the organized two-year rebellion of Roman slaves under the leadership of Spartacus ( from summer 73 BC to spring 71 BC ).

In the later Republic, augury came under the supervision of the college of pontifices, a priestly-magistral office whose powers were increasingly woven into the cursus honorum.

It was not the Persian custom to grant hereditary satrapies ; satrap was only a step in the cursus honorum.

Pliny was considered an honest and moderate man, consistent in his pursuit of suspected Christian members according to Roman law, and rose through a series of Imperial civil and military offices, the cursus honorum ( see below ).

His early career was a typical cursus honorum, with several appointments, both political and military.

However, there is no strict evidence about this, and some scholars suppose that Sallust haven't been a quaestor — the practice of violating cursus honorum was common in the last years of the Republic ..

For a pre-modernist notion of " career ", compare cursus honorum.

The next step of his cursus honorum was the election as praetor in 191 BC.

Since four boys were too many for a father to support through the cursus honorum, Paullus decided to give the oldest two boys up for adoption, probably between 175 BC and 170 BC.

The three great series that have made his reputation were Patrologiae cursus completus, Latin series ( Patrologia Latina ) in 221 vols.

This derives from the Latin cursus, meaning " course " ( as in journey or expedition ).

Cursus ( plural ' cursūs ' or ' cursuses ') was a name given by early British archaeologists such as William Stukeley to the large parallel lengths of banks with external ditches which they thought were early Roman athletic courses, hence the Latin name cursus, meaning " course ".

The Latin word ' cursus ' can be generally translated into English as ' course '.

Other names for the Liturgy of the Hours within the Latin Rite include the Divine Office, the Diurnal and Nocturnal Office, Ecclesiastical Office, Cursus ecclesiasticus, or simply cursus.

The best known of these are: Scripturae sacrae cursus completus (" complete course in sacred scripture ") which assembled a wide repertory of commentaries on each of the books of the Bible, and Theologiae cursus, each of them in 28 vols, 1840-5 ; Collection des auteurs sacrés ( 100 vols., 1846-8 ); Encyclopédie théologique ( 171 vols., 1844-6 ).

Most of the cursus earthworks have long since been destroyed and its course is only visible as soilmarks when conditions are favourable.

The cursus publicus (, " public road / course ") was the state-run courier and transportation service of the Roman Empire, later inherited by the Byzantine Empire.

Daughters had to be provided with a suitable dowry and sons had to be pushed through the political offices of the cursus honorum.

** minimum ages for the cursus honorum offices

With all the members of the Antonius family, he was then promoted to high offices of the cursus honorum.

The epitaph of the deceased in effect was a digest of the laudatio made visible and permanent, and might include the career résumé ( cursus honorum ) of a man who held public offices.

With the passage of time, the consulship became the normal endpoint of the cursus honorum, the sequence of offices pursued by the ambitious Roman.

It was not a compulsory part of the cursus, and hence a former quaestor could be elected to the praetorship without having held the aedileship.

It was preceded by shorter works, including the 1608 Encyclopaedia cursus philosophici.

It was in this position that he "... compiled a Forma Dicendi, a collection of official papal acts, and also completed a codification of the cursus, a compilation of the very stringent rules governing the euphonious arrangements of sentence endings and phrasing in papal acts.

In his honor, the cursus was called stylus gregorianus.

The reason of this is that St Benedict introduced in the cursus, another hour — that of Compline — which was prescribed to be celebrated in the evening, and which might be considered as a kind of doubling of the Office of Lucernarium.

Thus, his political career was boosted and his cursus honorum finished as early as 13 BC, when he was elected consul junior partner of Tiberius, Augustus ' stepson and future emperor.