Editing Consul (section)

==Other uses in antiquity==

===Private sphere===
It was not uncommon for an organization under Roman private law to copy the terminology of state and city institutions for its own statutory agents. The founding statute, or contract, of such an organisation was called ''lex'', 'law'. The people elected each year were [[Patrician (ancient Rome)|patricians]], members of the upper class.

===City-states===
While many cities, including the Gallic states and the [[Carthaginian Republic]], had a double-headed chief magistracy, another [[title]] was often used, such as the [[Punic]] ''[[sufet]]'',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bell |first1=Brenda |title=Roman Literary Attitudes to Foreign Terms and the Carthaginian 'sufetes' |journal=Classical Association of South Africa |date=1989 |volume=32 |pages=29–36 |jstor=24591869 }}</ref> ''Duumvir'', or native styles like ''Meddix''.