[947] Cic. de Leg. iii. 3, 7 “Suntoque aediles, curatores urbis, annonae ludorumque sollemnium: ollisque ad honoris amplioris gradum is primus ascensus esto.” Cf. lex Jul. Munic. l. 24.
[948] p. 122.
[949] Cic. in Verr. v. 14, 36.
[950] Livy (iii. 55), in stating the ineffectiveness of the sacrosanctitas granted by law and not by oath, says “itaque aedilem prendi ducique a majoribus magistratibus, etc.” Cf. Gell. xiii. 13.
[951] Cic. de Leg. iii. 3, 7, cited p. 208.
[952] p. 98.
[953] Dio Cass. liv. 36.
[954] Lex Jul. Munic. ll. 20, 32-45, 29, 46.
[955] Suet. Vesp. 5; lex Jul. Munic. l. 68.
[956] Cic. ad Fam. viii. 6, 4 (Caelius Rufus, curule aedile in 50 B.C., says) “nisi ego cum tabernariis et aquariis pugnarem, veternus civitatem occupasset.”