[757] Cic. Brut. 89, 304 “exercebatur una lege judicium Varia, ceteris propter bellum intermissis.”
[758] p. 119.
[759] Plut. Ti. Gracch. 10.
[760] “(Feriae) imperativae sunt, quas consules vel praetores pro arbitrio potestatis indicunt” (Macrob. Saturn. i. 16, 6).
[761] e.g. by Livy (x. 37).
[762] No instance of such a veto being exercised at Rome is known; but it is recognised in the municipal law of Salpensa (Bruns Fontes) c. 27.
[763] Or decretum. The formal difference is slight; by the end of the Republic edictum is a general, decretum a more special (and generally judicial) command.
[764] Liv. iv. 55.
[765] Caes. Bell. Civ. iii. 20 (Caelius Rufus) “tribunal suum juxta C. Treboni praetoris urbani sellam collocavit, et si quis appellavisset ... fore auxilio pollicebatur.” For the consequent necessity of the presence of the tribunes in Rome see p. 94.
[766] Thus Verres, who was praetor urbanus, had his decisions vetoed by Piso, who was probably praetor peregrinus, in cases where Verres had decided contrary to his own edict. Cic. in Verr. i. 46, 119; cf. Caes. l.c.