[1147] Momms. Staatsr. ii p. 601.

[1148] Verbally the second title might, and perhaps should, refer to the viae of Italy. But the office is probably an urban magistracy. See ib. p. 604.

[1149] Liv. iii. 55.

[1150] Cic. de Leg. iii. 3, 6. For their jurisdiction in cases of freedom in the Ciceronian period see Cic. pro Caec. 39, 97; pro Domo 29, 78.

[1151] Festus p. 233.

[1152] p. 207.

[1153] This was the case with C. Claudius Pulcher (C.I.L. i. p. 279), C. Junius (Cic. pro Cluent. 29, 79), and C. Julius Caesar (Suet. Caes. 11).

[1154] p. 189.

[1155] Cic. pro Cluent. 33, 91.

[1156] Mommsen inclines to think that the office followed as a matter of course on the aedileship (Staatsr. ii. p. 590).