[807] Momms. Staatsr. i. p. 488. Exceptional elections of the sons of freedmen are found in 304 B.C. (Liv. ix. 46, Cn. Flavius (see p. 185) as aedile) and in the year 100 B.C. (App. B.C. i. 33).
[808] Lex Julia Municipalis (Bruns Fontes) l. 92 “in castreis inve provincia.”
[809] Plut. C. Gracch. 2.
[810] There is also evidence for this as the minimum age at a period earlier than Cicero’s political career; see Cic. in Verr. ii. 49, 122.
[811] In Caesar’s municipal law (45 B.C.) the qualification for a municipal magistracy is either thirty years of age or a certain length of service—six years on foot or three on horseback (L.J.M. l. 89).
[812] Liv. ix. 46 (of the election of Cn. Flavius to the curule aedileship) “Invenio in quibusdam annalibus, cum adpareret aedilibus ... neque accipi nomen, quia scriptum faceret, tabulam posuisse et jurasse, se scriptum non facturum.”
[813] Cic. de Off. i. 42, 150; in later Roman law spoken of as vilitas; see Greenidge Infamia in Roman Law pp. 12, 193.
[814] Cic. pro Cluent. 42, 119; Schol. Bob. in Cic. pro Sulla 5, 17, p. 361 Orell.; Cic. pro Rosc. Com. 6, 16; Tertull. de Spect. 22; Ascon. in orat. in Tog. Cand. p. 115; Lex Julia Munic. l. 104; Dig. 48, 7, 1. All these passages are discussed in Greenidge Infamia in Roman Law pp. 18-40 and 187.
[815] Liv. iii. 35 “Ars haec erat, ne semet ipse creare posset; quod praeter tribunos plebi (et id ipsum pessimo exemplo) nemo unquam fecisset.” The revolutionary period shows Cinna and Carbo nominating themselves consuls for two successive years (Liv. Ep. 83) and Caesar as dictator presiding over his own election to the consulship (Caes. B.C. iii. 1, 1).
[816] Cic. de Leg. Agr. ii. 8, 21 “Licinia est lex atque altera Aebutia, quae non modo eum, qui tulerit de aliqua curatione ac potestate, sed etiam collegas ejus, cognatos, affines excipit, ne eis ea potestas curatiove mandetur.”