[657] S. C. de Bacch. quoted p. 158.
[658] Liv. xxxix. 15 “contione advocata cum sollemne carmen precationis, quod praefari priusquam populum adloquantur magistratus solent, peregisset, consul ita coepit.”
[659] Messala ap. Gell. xiii. 16 includes the magistratus minores. Mommsen, guided by the (in this case probably false) analogy of the jus cum populo agendi, would exclude the aediles and quaestors (Staatsr. i. p. 200).
[660] Gell. l.c.
[661] Cic. ad Att. iv. 1, 6 “habui contionem, omnes magistratus praeter unum praetorem et duos tribunos pl. dederunt”; i. 14, 1 “Pisonis consulis impulsu levissimus tribunus pl. Fufius in contionem producit Pompeium”; ii. 24, 3 “Caesar is qui olim, praetor cum esset, Q. Catulum ex inferiore loco jusserat dicere, Vettium in rostra produxit.”
[662] Sall. Jug. 34 “ubi Memmius (a tribune) dicendi finem fecit et Jugurtha respondere jussus est, C. Baebius tribunus plebis ... regem tacere jubet.”
[663] See note 1.
[664] Cic. de Leg. iii. 4, 10 “cum populo patribusque agendi jus esto consuli praetori magistro populi equitumque eique quem patres produnt consulum rogandorum ergo.” For the question whether the praefect of the city had this right see p. 61; an argument for his possession of it in the Republic is his right of consulting the Senate.
[665] For the curule aediles see Cic. in Verr. i. 12, 36; Val. Max. viii. 1, 7.
[666] Liv. iii. 24; Dionys. viii. 77.