it Caesar's adoption of his nephew Gaius Octavian (the future Roman Emperor Augustus) as his son and heir. With the rise of the empire, the sanctioning powers of the Curiate assembly fell into disuse, as the power to grant imperium, along with the vast majority of the other powers of the Curiate assembly, were transferred into the hands of the Senate or delegated to the emperor through a special lex de imperio. See also Roman Kingdom Roman Republic Roman Empire Roman Law Plebeian Council Centuria Curia Roman consul Praetor Roman censor Quaestor Aedile Roman Dictator Master of the Horse Roman Senate Cursus honorum Byzantine Senate Pontifex Maximus Princeps senatus Interrex Procurator (Roman) Acta Senatus Notes References Botsford, George Willis (1909, repr. 2005). The Roman Assemblies. From their Origin to the End of the Republic, New York. Byrd, Robert (1995). The Senate of the Roman Republic. U.S. Government Printing Office, Senate Document 103-23. Lintott, Andrew (1999). The Constitution of the Roman Republic. Oxford University Press (). Polybius (1823). The General History of Polybius: Translated from the Greek. By James Hampton. Oxford: Printed by W. Baxter. Fifth Edition, Vol 2. Taylor, Lily Ross (1966). Roman Voting Assemblies: From the Hannibalic War to the Dictatorship of Caesar. The University of Michigan Press (). Tullius Cicero, Marcus (1841 edition). The Political Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Comprising his Treatise on the Commonwealth; and his Treatise on the Laws. Translated from the original, with Dissertations and Notes in Two Volumes. By Francis Barham, Esq. London: Edmund Spettigue. Vol. 1. Further reading Ihne, Wilhelm. Researches Into the History of the Roman Constitution. William Pickering. 1853. Johnston, Harold Whetstone. Orations and Letters of Cicero: With Historical Introduction, An Outline of the Roman Constitution, Notes, Vocabulary and Index. Scott, Foresman and Company. 1891. Mommsen, Theodor. Roman Constitutional Law. 1871-1888 Tighe, Ambrose. The Development of the Roman Constitution. D. Apple & Co. 1886. Von Fritz, Kurt. The Theory of the Mixed Constitution in Antiquity. Columbia University Press, New York. 1975. The Histories by Polybius Cambridge Ancient History, Volumes 9–13. A. Cameron, The Later Roman Empire, (Fontana Press, 1993). M. Crawford, The Roman Republic, (Fontana Press, 1978). E. S. Gruen, "The Last Generation of the Roman Republic" (U California Press, 1974) F. Millar, The Emperor in the Roman World, (Duckworth, 1977, 1992). A. Lintott, "The Constitution of the Roman Republic" (Oxford University Press, 1999) Primary sources Cicero's De Re Publica,