magistratus, -ūs (one bearing a civic office; qui jura reddit): The higher magistrates, magistratus majores (in the Roman sense, those who had the imperium): the inferior magistrates, magistratus minores (in the Roman sense, those who had not the imperium, namely, aediles and quaestors under the republic, and municipal magistrates under the empire; Vid: Dict. Antiquities, MAGISTRATUS: ☞ officiales is late).