Note 735 — Chapter IV · THE MAGISTRACY
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Cic. pro Sest. 36, 78; Dio Cass. xxxviii. 13. To discuss, as has been done, whether the patrician magistrates’ obnuntiatio was valid against the tribunes is to raise rather an idle question. The lex Aelia Fufia could not have artificially regulated religious belief, and the Plebs was as susceptible to auspicia as the Populus (see p. 39).