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Abstract
In this paper, edicts and decrees are examined from the perspective of their meaning and their relations. After a brief overview of the literature, this article aims at setting out the difference between edicts and decrees and its evolution during the Roman Republic, mainly focusing on Latin sources. As Praetors' edicts and decrees are rather wellknown, this article focuses on edicts and decrees by other magistrates and in literary sources. Edictum appears to be originally a kind of order, decided by the sole magistrate and linked to his coercitio, whereas decretum is a collective decision, linked to iurisdictio, made to settle a very precise circumstance. Both of those acts gradually lost their differences and were reused in a different manner during the Empire.

International audience ; This paper focuses on the career of Cn. Flavius, one of the most important characters of the Roman political life at the end of the fourth century BC. Reassessing the available sources on Cn. Flavius shows that he had an authentic political career, long and, in particular, that he had probably been tribune of the plebs. Flavius can be thus placed in a different way within the roman reforming sphere of this period. The parallel reconsideration of the vocabulary of some sources allows, at last, to add that his action as aedilis was also understood in the terms of the disclosure of a secret knowledge to non-initiated people, as it could be found in the Greek world. ; Cet article se propose de revenir sur la carrière d'une personnalité essentielle de la vie politique romaine de la fin du IVe siècle avant J.-C. : Cn. Flavius. Le réexamen des sources disponibles sur ce personnage montre qu'il eut très certainement une véritable carrière, longue et, en particulier, qu'il occupa sans doute la charge de tribun de la plèbe. Cela permet en outre de réinscrire différemment Flavius dans les milieux réformateurs romains de cette époque. L'examen parallèle du vocabulaire de certaines sources permet enfin d'ajouter que son action en tant qu'édile a aussi été conçue dans les termes de la divulgation d'un savoir secret à des non-initiés, à la manière de ce qu'on pourrait rencontrer dans le monde grec.

International audience ; This paper focuses on the career of Cn. Flavius, one of the most important characters of the Roman political life at the end of the fourth century BC. Reassessing the available sources on Cn. Flavius shows that he had an authentic political career, long and, in particular, that he had probably been tribune of the plebs. Flavius can be thus placed in a different way within the roman reforming sphere of this period. The parallel reconsideration of the vocabulary of some sources allows, at last, to add that his action as aedilis was also understood in the terms of the disclosure of a secret knowledge to non-initiated people, as it could be found in the Greek world. ; Cet article se propose de revenir sur la carrière d'une personnalité essentielle de la vie politique romaine de la fin du IVe siècle avant J.-C. : Cn. Flavius. Le réexamen des sources disponibles sur ce personnage montre qu'il eut très certainement une véritable carrière, longue et, en particulier, qu'il occupa sans doute la charge de tribun de la plèbe. Cela permet en outre de réinscrire différemment Flavius dans les milieux réformateurs romains de cette époque. L'examen parallèle du vocabulaire de certaines sources permet enfin d'ajouter que son action en tant qu'édile a aussi été conçue dans les termes de la divulgation d'un savoir secret à des non-initiés, à la manière de ce qu'on pourrait rencontrer dans le monde grec.