[797] Liv. xxix. 22 (204 B.C.). Pleminius and his colleagues were “producti ad populum ab tribunis.”
[798] ib. vi. 1 “Q. Fabio ... ab Cn. Marcio tribuno plebis dicta dies est, quod legatus in Gallos, ad quos missus erat orator, contra jus gentium pugnasset.”
[799] ib. Ep. 69 “L. Appuleius Saturninus ... Metello Numidico, eo quod in eam (the agrarian law) non juraverat, diem dixit.”
[800] ib. xxv. 3 (Postumius a publicanus, for shipwrecking and false reports of shipwreck).
[801] e.g. waging war without authorisation (Ascon. in Cornelian. p. 80, 104 B.C.), disgraceful flight imperilling the safety of others (Liv. xxvi. 2, 211 B.C.).
[802] Exceeding the legal duration of a magistracy, in this case the dictatorship (Cic. de Off. iii. 31, 112). The instance, though typical, is not historic.
[803] Liv. xliii. 7, 8 (170 B.C.).
[804] Tac. Ann. xi. 22 “apud majores ... cunctis civium, si bonis artibus fiderent, licitum petere magistratus.”
[805] Festus p. 231 “plebeium magistratum neminem capere licet, nisi qui ex plebe est.” Cf. Suet. Aug. 10.
[806] This seems shown by Suet. Claud. 24 (see p. 135).