1I agree with your interpretation, my dearest Secundus: the Pompeian law has been modified by the edict of the deified Augustus to the extent that those who were not under twenty-two years of age might hold a magistracy, and those who had held one might enter the senate of each city. 1But I do not think that those under thirty who have not held a magistracy can be enrolled in the council of any place merely because they could hold a magistracy.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.80
Trajan on the Pompeian law
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