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Usage examples of elections.

Then will follow the elections for quaestors, curule aediles, tribunes of the soldiers and other minor positions in the Assembly of the People ten days before the Kalends of Sextilis.

Listening incredulously to the Dictator announcing that he would hold elections for all the magistracies!

Sulla tackling elections and elected offices with an expression on his face that did not brook argument.

In future, all elections will be held in Quinctilis, which is five to six months earlier than an elected man takes office.

And finally the plebeian elections in the Plebeian Assembly will be held on a date between two and six days before the Kalends.

But I will continue as Dictator until Quinctilis, when I will hold the elections for the magistrates of next year.

So I repeat that I will step down from the Dictatorship after the elections in Quinctilis.

In future years all the elections will be free, open to as many candidates as want to stand.

At a moment when the Senate should have been turning its attention toward preparing for the elections to be held in Quinctilis, the Senate forgot all about elections.

For one thing, the curule elections are due to be held shortly and the lot fell upon him to hold them.

I remind you that we are about to hold our first free elections in some years, and that it is imperative we hold them on time and with due legality.

Then at the very beginning of October, Philippus managed to weary the Senate into demanding that Lepidus return to hold the curule elections in Rome.

Return to Rome like a good boy, hold the curule elections and pass then into obscurity-or do I attempt what the Etrurian leaders want of me and lead them against Rome in open rebellion?

We are now conducting these elections, I must point out to you, and the governance of Rome will proceed in future years as it was always intended to proceed!

The curule elections are due next month and I intend to be back in Rome in plenty of time to stand for the consulship.