id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7167 King of Rome - Wikipedia .html text/html 3982 548 64 The King of Rome (Latin: Rex Romae) was the chief magistrate of the Roman Kingdom.[1] According to legend, the first king of Rome was Romulus, who founded the city in 753 BC upon the Palatine Hill. After Romulus, Rome's first legendary king, Roman kings were elected by the people of Rome, sitting as a Curiate Assembly, who voted on the candidate that had been nominated by a chosen member of the senate called an interrex. The modern concept of a head of state, insofar as the republican times excepting the dictatorships are concerned, can hardly be translated to Roman conceptions[clarification needed], but most other powers—the imperium—were ceded to the consuls (the etymology suggests that these were originally the king's chief counsellors) and to the praetors ("leaders")[8] after the creation of that office (about 367, according to Livy); thereby at least roughly separating the judiciary from the executive. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7167.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7167.txt