The , or more colloquially 'ladder of offices'; ) was the sequential order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire.

The cursus publicus (Latin: "the public way"; , dēmósios drómos) was the state mandated and supervised courier and transportation service of the Roman Empire, the use of which continued into the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ostrogothic Kingdom.

The (sometimes known as the Greater Cursus) a large Neolithic cursus monument on Salisbury plain, near to Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.