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title: "The Deified Julius · Divus Julius"
author: "Suetonius"
translator: "John C. Rolfe"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 41 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/41/
cite: "Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe, The Deified Julius · Divus Julius, section 41. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/41/"
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# The Deified Julius · Divus Julius

*Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe*

## 41. Chapter 41

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/41/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/41/#p-N

[¶0] He filled the vacancies in the senate, enrolled additional patricians, and increased the number of praetors, aediles, and quaestors, as well as of the minor officials; he reinstated those who had been degraded by official action of the censors or found guilty of bribery by verdict of the jurors.

> Latin: Senatum supplevit, patricios adlegit, praetorum aedilium quaestorum, minorum etiam magistratuum numerum ampliavit; nudatos opere censorio aut sententia iudicum de ambitu condemnatos restituit.

[¶1] He shared the elections with the people on this basis: that except in the case of the consulship, half of the magistrates should be appointed by the people’s choice, while the rest should be those whom he had personally nominated. And these he announced in brief notes like the following, circulated in each tribe: Caesar the Dictator to this or that tribe. I commend to you so and so, to hold their positions by your votes. He admitted to office even the sons of those who had been proscribed. He limited the right of serving as jurors to two classes, the equestrian and senatorial orders, disqualifying the third class, the tribunes of the treasury.

> Latin: Comitia cum populo partitus est, ut exceptis consulatus conpetitoribus de cetero numero candidatorum pro parte dimidia quos populus vellet pronuntiarentur, pro parte altera quos ipse dedisset. Et edebat per libellos circum circum tribum] circum tribus, Venetian ed. of 1510, Casaubon; tributim circummissos,Bentley; the early Roman editions have cuique tribui.tribum missos scriptura brevi: Caesar dictator illi tribui. Commendo vobis illum et illum, ut vestro suffragio suam dignitatem teneant. Admisit ad honores et proscriptorum liberos. Iudicia ad duo genera iudicum redegit, equestris ordinis ac senatorii; tribunos aerarios, quod erat tertium, sustulit.

*Note: Plebeians, connected in some way with the treasury.*

[¶2] He made the enumeration of the people neither in the usual manner nor place, but from street to street aided by the owners of blocks of houses, and reduced the number of those who received grain at public expense from three hundred and twenty thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand. And to prevent the calling of additional meetings at any future time for purposes of enrolment, he provided that the places of such as died should be filled each year by the praetors from those who were not on the list.

> Latin: Recensum populi nec more nec loco solito, sed vicatim per dominos insularum egit atque ex viginti trecentisque milibus accipientium frumentum publico ad centum quinquaginta retraxit; ac ne qui novi coetus recensionis causa moveri quandoque possent, instituit, quotannis in demortuorum locum ex iis, qui recensi non essent, subsortitio a praetore fieret.

*Note: I.e., of the commons, with reference to the distribution of grain.*