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Excerpt from Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1888, Vol. 19
Here it is to be noticed that in the period after Sulla the consuls and praetors within their year of office possessed only the civil z'mperz'um, that is, general executive and administra tive power within the limits of Italy; for them, therefore, it made no difference whether they secured the passage' of this law or not, until the time came for them to go to the govern ment of a province in the following year. This the posses sion of the z'mperz'um, which did not require to be renewed, enabled them to do without interruption. There is no doubt that the law, being now a mere formality, was often neglected; Cicero says (leg. Agr. Ii. 12, consulz'bus legem curz'atam fere?tz'bus a trz'bum's plebz's saepe est z'ntercessum. In this case no embarrassment would result until it came to acts which rested distinctly upon the military such as holding the'comz'ti'a centurz'ata (which power was, of course, contained in'the limited z'mperz'um of this period), and taking the gov ernment of a province. Since our discussion therefore is exclusively confined to. The right to exercise these powers, we will speak of the law in question by its familiar if in. Exact title, as [ex cun'ata de z'mperz'o.
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