Senatus consultum de funere censorio A. Tulliae Scholasticae Augustae (Nova Roma)

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I. It was with great sadness that the Nova Roman Senate learned of the death of consular and censorial senator A. Tullia Scholastica Augusta, the princeps senatus, awarded eques equo publico, recipient of the Censorial Award and the Senate Award for Shaping the First Quarter of Century of Nova Noma, one of the most iconic and indispensable citizens of Nova Roma, without whom our Res Publica could not have been imagined, and without whom we feel orphans. The Republic is in grief, and the Senate is mourning the loss of its princeps senatus, a close friend and patroness to many of us, the most venerable and illustrious Tullia Scholastica Augusta. Our honorable and revered old Tullia Scholastica Augusta was one of the greatest Nova Romans in our Res Publica, a true Roman and a wonderful Roman matron respected by the citizenry. All members of the Senate extend their sincere and deeply felt condolences to Tullia Scholastica Flaviana the daughter, filia familias of princeps senatus Tullia Scholastica Augusta, to her partial heir the princeps iuventutis Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, and to all relatives and friends of Tullia Scholastica Augusta. However, it is not only they who need to be consoled: the Senate extends its condolences to the entire citizenry of Nova Roma, for the loss of our premier citizen, the highest ranking member of our society, their fellow citizen who was there with them through fire and water, and whom many loved as a mother figure of Nova Roma. Her ascension to our ancestors is accompanied with prayer for her from all over the world, as she gloriously entered the kingdom of shadows exactly on her 80th birthday, and she will remain with us forever, as a protecting spirit of Nova Roma.

II. In order to honor the memory of the late illustrious four times censor, twice consul, former praetor, princeps senatus, A. Tullia Scholastica Augusta, and to express gratitude for her many great contributions to Nova Roma, for her more than 20 years of dedication to our commonwealth, and to pay homage to the greatness of her loyalty, character and importance for Nova Roman history, the Senate is hereby awarding and declaring a funus censorium, censorial state funeral to the censorial and consular senator A. Tullia Scholastica Augusta, princeps senatus, public knight of Nova Roma, as it is appropriate. Further, the Senate also authorizes a donation of an unspecified amount of money aiding the heirs of Tullia Scholastica Augusta toward the costs of the funeral in the name of the Nova Roman People, the Quirites. This unspecified donation shall count as if it were given from the Treasury of Nova Roma, but the funds shall be raised by the treasury quaestors, handled and spent under the joint authority of the consuls and the treasury quaestors, helping the heirs to conduct the most magnificent tribute ceremonies. Recognizing that the actual funeral arranged by the family has been already held on pr. Kal. Mai. M. Cotta Iovio C. Petronio Stephano coss. (30 April, 2024), this funus censorium serves as our separate funerary tribute but also supports the actual funeral financially.

III. The funus censorium of A. Tullia Scholastica Augusta shall take place in a form of a funerary ritual and sacrifice conducted by one or both of the consuls, based on their agreement. The volunteering consul has the usual authorization to request one of the pontifices to perform the ritual in his place.

IV. The funus censorium ritual shall take place on the date appointed by the volunteering consul, and published in a consular edict on the funus censorium of Tullia Scholastica Augusta. Before issuing the edict, the consul shall obtain an approval for the chosen day from a pontifex and an augur because of the calendrical complications of Roman religion. If the consul chooses to perform the ritual through the person of a pontifex, he has to arrange the date with the officiating pontifex before publishing the edict.

V. The senate, to further honor the memory of A. Tullia Scholastica Augusta, hereby officially declares a state mourning for the funeral of A. Tullia Scholastica Augusta, which shall take place beginning from the day which precedes the funus censorium ritual, and shall last three days.

VI. These three days are declared Dies Nefasti Publici (NP), and, according to the Decretum Pontificum de Diebus III.A., no official state business, no judicial procedure, no comitia shall be held, no edicts shall be issued on these days. This may coincide with festivals and ludi, in which case they shall proceed alongside the state mourning, in a more modest, reduced form, and A. Tullia Scholastica Augusta’s transition to the Manes shall be remembered in central position within the sacrifices and prayers of the festival.

VII. During this state mourning period, the main page of the Nova Roma website shall show nothing else but a tribute to A. Tullia Scholastica Augusta, her mourning portrait, black flags and similar symbols of grief, and other main portal pages of the website shall contain a black flag and reference to the mourning for Scholastica Augusta.

VIII. On each day of the state mourning period, the consuls shall take care that there be a daily public message on the official fora of Nova Roma calling the citizens' attention to the mourning and asking for prayers for A. Tullia Scholastica Augusta.

IX. The senate also instructs all aediles (curule and plebeian) collegially as a body to hold public funerary games in honor and in memory of A. Tullia Scholastica Augusta no later than within one month after the funus censorium. The memorial funerary games shall be called Ludi Tullii (Tullian Games) and shall include some form of munera gladiatoria and a biography contest about the life and Roman activities of Tullia Scholastica Augusta. The rest of the programs, including the length of the games, is at the discretion of the curule and plebeian aediles, but they shall not exceed 5 days.

X. The senate determines that the next coin officially issued by Nova Roma shall remember A. Tullia Scholastica Augusta.