Note 1352 — Chapter XI · THE FUNCTIONS OF THE COMITIA CENTURIATA
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Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 531. On the number of praetors, see Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. ii. 202. The election of a centurion to the function of dedicating a temple (Livy ii. 27. 6) in the period before the first secession Lange (ibid. i. 917; ii. 532) with good reason considers a myth. It is doubtful, however, whether he is right in viewing as historical the so-called lex Valeria de candidatis, assigned to the first year of the republic (Plut. Popl. 11; Lange, ibid. ii. 532), which ordered the presiding magistrate to accept as candidates all qualified patricians who offered themselves for the consulship—a principle said to have been afterward applied to other patrician offices.