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209.18.

intermissis magistratibus, there being a vacancy in the magistracy; this phrase signifies that an interval occurred between the term of one magistrate and the due election of his successor. Valetiacus (208 22) had illegally appointed his brother Cotus to be his successor. The priests promptly declared the office vacant and appointed Convictolitavis to fill the position until a regular election could again be held. In such a case at Rome (as had recently occurred twice, B.C. 55 and 52),the patrician senators appointed an interrex by virtue of the sacred authority residing in them. Caesar here, accordingly, recognizes the likeness to a Roman precedent.


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