Magistrates-elect and their potestas contionandi in the Late Roman Republic

• Autores: Francisco Pina Polo
• Localización: Historia: zeitschrift für alte geschichte : revue d'histoire ancienne, ISSN 0018-2311, Vol. 65, Nº 1, 2016, págs. 66-72
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The ancient sources mention speeches being delivered in the late Republic in contiones by both consuls-elect and tribunes of the plebs designate. It has usually been assumed that as magistrates-elect they did not have the right to summon a popular assembly. In this paper it is suggested that magistrates-designate – or at least some of them – had this privilege. This should be understood in the more general framework in which the designati played a political and institutional role during the late Republic.