Note 466 — Chapter II · THE GROWTH OF THE REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION
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ib. vii. 1 (366 B.C.) “verecundia inde imposita est senatui ex patribus jubendi aediles curules creari. primo, ut alternis annis ex plebe fierent, convenerat; [this was the rule in 213 (Polyb. x. 4)]. postea promiscuum fuit” [Mommsen (Staatsr. ii. p. 482) thinks as late as the last century of the Republic].