ACTA Consistorii, the edicts or declarations of the council of state of the Roman emperors. These edicts were generally expressed in such terms as these: "The august emperors, Dioclesian and Maximin, in council declare, That the children of decurions shall not be exposed to wild beasts in the amphitheatre."—The senate and soldiers often swore, either through abject flattery or by compulsion, upon the edicts of the emperor, as we do upon the Bible. The name of Apidius Merula was erased by Nero out of the register of senators, because he refused to swear upon the edicts of the Emperor Augustus.