The Curule AEdiles were first elected B.C. 365 and only from the Patricians, but afterwards the office was accessible to the Plebeians.  The functions of the Plebeian AEdiles seem to have been performed by all the AEdiles indifferently after B.C. 368, though the Curule AEdiles alone had the power of making Edicts (edicta), which power was founded on their general superintendence of all buying and selling, and many of their rules had reference to the buying and selling of slaves (Dig. 21, tit. 1).  The Curule AEdiles only had the superintendence of some of the greater festivals, on which occasions they went to great expense to gratify the people and buy popularity as a means of further promotion. (See Sulla, c. 5.)]

[Footnote 57:  At this time there were six Praetors.  The Praetor Urbanus or City Praetor was sometimes simply called Praetor and had the chief administration of justice in Rome.  The Praetor Peregrinus also resided in Rome and had the superintendence in matters in dispute between Roman citizens and aliens (peregrini).  The other Praetors had provinces allotted to them to administer; and after the expiration of their year of office, the praetors generally received the administration of a Province with the title of Propraetor.  It appears (c. 5) that Marius either stayed at Rome during his praetorship or had some Province in Italy.  As to the meaning of the Roman word Province, see Caius Gracchus, c. 19, note.]

[Footnote 58:  Bribery at elections among the Romans was called Ambitus, which literally signifies “a going about;” it then came to signify canvassing, solicitation, the giving and promising of money for votes, and all the means for accomplishing this end, in which the recurrence of elections at Rome annually made candidates very expert.  The first law specially directed against the giving of money (largitiones) was the Lex Cornelia Baebia, B.C. 182; and there were many subsequent enactments, but all failed to accomplish their object.  The Lex Baebia incapacitated him who gave a bribe to obtain office from filling any office for ten years.]

[Footnote 59:  His alleged intemperance consisted in not being able to endure thirst on such an occasion.  His real offence was his conduct which made him suspected of acting as an agent of Marius in the election.  It was one of the duties of the Censors, when revising the lists of Equites and Senators, to erase the names of those whom they considered unworthy of the rank, and this without giving any reason for it.]

[Footnote 60:  The words Patron and Client are now used by us, but, like many other Roman terms, not in the original or proper sense.  Dominus and Servus, Master and Slave, were terms placed in opposition to one another, like Patron and Client, Patronus and Cliens.  A master who manumitted his slave became his Patronus, a kind of father (for Patronus is derived from Pater, father):  the slave was called the Patron’s Libertus, freedman;