Note 1071 — Chapter IV · THE MAGISTRACY (continued 2)
Reading edition
A fragment of a censorian edict of 92 B.C. directed against the “Latini rhetores” has been preserved. It contains the words “Haec nova, quae praeter consuetudinem ac morem majorum fiunt, neque placent neque recta videntur” (Suet. de Clar. Rhet. 1; Gell. xv. 11, 2).