ADMINISTRATION Copy link • ADMINISTRATIONadministratio (general term; e.g., reipublicae, praedii rustici, etc.): functio (performance of the obligations laid upon one by anything, honorum, etc.): procuratio (management far another in his absence; e.g., alienorum bonorum). Body intrusted with the management of a nation’s affairs, *qui toti reipublicae administrandae praepositi sunt: *qui praefecti sunt rebus publicis: *rerum publicarum curatores: procuratores regni, or qui in procuratione regni sunt (i. e., who rule in the name of a king who is a minor, imbecile, etc.). Task or office of managing a nation’s affairs, administratio reipublicae; negotia publica; summa imperii, rerum.