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70 BC (search for this): book 33, chapter 7
ere were but three decuries. decuries only, and in each of these decuries there was hardly one thousand men to be found, the provinces not having been hitherto admitted to the office; an observance which is still in force at the present day, no one newly admitted to the rights of citizenship being allowed to perform the duties of judex as a member of the decuries. (2.) These decuries, too, were themselves distinguished by several denominations—" tribunesA law introduced by Aurelius Cotta, B.C. 70, enacted that the Judices should be chosen from the three classes—of Senators, Equites, and Tribuni æarii, or Tribunes of the treasury, these last being taken from the body of the people, and being persons possessed of some property. of the treasury," "selecti,"Members selected by lot. and "judices:" in addition to whom, there were the persons styled the "nine hundred,""Nongenti." chosen from all the decuries for the purpose of keeping the voting-boxes at the comitia. From the ambitious adopti