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There are instances in later times of a manipulation of the _sortitio_.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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L. Racilius, one of the new tribunes.] [Footnote 425: The _sortitio iudicum_ was performed by the prætor drawing out the required number of names from the urn, which contained the names of all liable to serve.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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