Note 2172 — Chapter XI · ITALY AND THE PROVINCES UNDER THE PRINCIPATE
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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]).