Centuriate

Under the provisions of the Centuriate law which gave me my position, I am not obliged to see other magistrates elected if I so wish.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Knowing he would turn seventeen on the third day of January, Marcus Tullius Cicero took his thin body to the military service registration booth on the Campus Martius just after the Centuriate elections.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

More depressing by far were the Centuriate elections, at least at the consular level.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Nothing came of the speech, but Sulla then heard that Cinna was actively lobbying many of the backbenchers for their support when Vergilius and another tribune of the plebs, Publius Magius, submitted a motion to the Senate to recommend to the Centuriate Assembly that Sulla be stripped of his imperium and made to answer charges of treason and murder.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

And yet, when the Centuriate electors assembled in the saepta on the Campus Martius and the Centuries one by one gave their choices, the name of Lucius Cornelius Sulla — so aristocratic and acceptable in itself — was not among the six successful candidates; to add insult to injury, some of the men who were elected were as mediocre in achievement as in their ability to show the proper ancestors.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Piggle-wiggle was returned first in the Centuriate polls, so will be the senior consul for next year.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

Glaucia, president of the current ten tribunes of the plebs, was deputed to hold the elections for the incoming college; had the Centuriate elections for consuls and praetors already been held, he would not have been able to officiate, for his status as praetor-elect would have disqualified him.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

The Caecilius Metelluses were still able to influence Centuriate voting — but not enough to keep Gaius Marius out.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

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We are interested in one thing only: the knowledge that unless we do something, we are going to be faced with a surplus of citizens — all claiming to be members of the thirty-one rural tribes! — who will within a generation be able to cast more votes in the tribal elections than we bona fide citizens, and may possibly also be able to influence voting in the Centuriate Classes. "

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991