CLA231H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Praetor, Government Of Hamburg, Sallust
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Results of opening of offices and priesthoods to plebeians that occurred during the fourth and third centuries resulted in the formation of a new governing elite in. Would govern rome and its empire through the period of expansion in the third, second and first centuries. New nobility rested on its members" ability to win offices and gain priesthoods. Position of the new elite families was less secure than that of the patriciate of the past. In each generation, they had to provide new and successful seekers of offices; families that failed to do so could otherwise drop out of the governing elite. Results: gradual creation of a hierarchy of positions. Once fully developed goes: quaestor, aedile, praetor, consul. Or quaestor, tribune of the plebs, aedile, praetor, consul . Rule against holding consulship for more than one year was firmly established in the 3rd century.
