[2167] Ulpian (in Dig. 1, 17, 1) speaks of his having an “imperium ... ad similitudinem proconsulis.”
[2168] Tac. Ann. xii. 60 “divus Augustus apud equestres, qui Aegypto praesiderent, lege agi decretaque eorum proinde haberi jusserat, ac si magistratus Romani constituissent.”
[2169] Cic. ad Att. xiv. 12, 1; Tac. Ann. xiii. 32; Plin. H.N. iii. 30.
[2170] See Mitteis Reichsrecht und Volksrecht.
[2171] Cf. Plin. Epp. ad Traj. 17 (28), 37 (46), 39 (48), 47 (56), 54 (62), 111 (112).
[2172] The lex Malacitana (the charter of a Latin colony in Spain founded between 81 and 84 A.D.) contains (c. li.) elaborate provisions for forcing candidates to come forward for office (Bruns Fontes). Trajan in a letter to Pliny speaks of those “qui inviti fiunt decuriones” (Plin. Ep. ad Traj. 113 [114]).
[2173] See Marquardt Staatsverw. i. p. 190; Kuhn Verfassung des römischen Reichs i. p. 238. Cf. Plin. ad Traj. 112 (113) “ii quos indulgentia tua quibusdam civitatibus super legitimum numerum adicere permisit.” Contrast with this the principle of admission to local senates recognised by the lex Julia Munic. l. 85 “nei quis eorum quem ... legito neve sublegito ... nisi in demortuei damnateive locum.”
[2174] Lex Julia Munic. l. 135 “II vir(atum) IIII vir(atum) aliamve quam potestatem, ex quo honore in eum ordinem perveniat.”
[2175] Paulus in Dig. 50, 2, 7, 2 “Is, qui non sit decurio, duumviratu vel aliis honoribus fungi non potest, quia decurionum honoribus plebeii fungi prohibentur.”
[2176] Dig. 50, 2, 1.