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the tenth day after the nominis dclatio, be assigned to the trial, 

 eleven days are required for the whole process. The time was in 

 all probability longer by at least a day or two, for the evidence, 

 although scanty, indicates that postulatio and nominis dclatio did 

 not fall on successive days.''^ It is therefore impossible to give 

 the augural election a place between the date of Fani. VIII, 12, 

 and September 23. The election in that event could not have 

 been held earlier than September ig,*'^ probably not earlier than 

 the 20th, which would leave but two or three days for the criminal 

 process in question. The latest possible date of the election, con- 

 sidering the evidence from Peducaeus's trial alone, would be Au- 

 gust 28, the last comitial day before the Indi Roniani, which began 

 September 4. If the charge against Peducaeus was vis, the trial 

 might have been held during the games.*^^ Any other charge 

 would necessitate a trial date later than the games. 



There is fairly conclusive evidence to show that in the period 

 of the late Republic vacancies in the more important priestly col- 

 leges were filled each year at one time, and that the sacerdotal 

 election held a fixed place in the series of civil elections, between 

 the consular and the praetorian.*'* August 20 has been established 

 .-as the latest possible date of the praetorian election. August 18 

 is thus seen to be the latest possible date of the augural election. 



Whether or not the augural election in 50 did in fact occur as 

 late as August 18 depends on the amount of time required for the 

 events of Hirtius's narrative in B. G., VIII, 50-55. Before dis- 

 cussing these in detail it is desirable first to consider the latter 

 terminus of the narrative, the date of Caesar's arrival in Italy on 

 his second journey thither. In c. 55, i, Hirtius reports Caesar's 

 arrival in these words: Quo cum venisset, cognoscit per C. Mar- 

 cellum consuleni legiones duas ah se missas, quae ex senatus con- 

 sulto deberent ad Parthicum bellum duci, Pompeio traditas atque 



^Ihid., p. 459, 7; 461, I. 



^ P. 302 and note 47. 



^ Greenidge, Legal Proced., p. 457. 



^Staatsr., 1\ p. 563; II, p. 30; Rom. Alt., IP, pp. 538-39; Bouche- 

 Leclerq in Daremberg-Saglio, I, p. 552; Gemoll, De Cooptatione Sacer- 

 dotum Romanorum, pp. 14-15 ; Wissowa, Relig. imd Kult., p. 418. 



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