Note 1035 — Chapter IV · THE MAGISTRACY (continued 2)
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In the great sublectio after Cannae (216 B.C.) the ex-curule magistrates not already on the list were chosen in the order of their tenure of power; then the ex-aediles, ex-tribunes of the plebs and the quaestorii, lastly men of distinction who had held no magistracy (Liv. xxiii. 23).