Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 2.4.35

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[35] Doubts may be raised as to whether the mover is legally in a position to propose a law, as happened in the case of Publius Clodius, whose appointment as tribune of the plebs was alleged to be unconstitutional. ¹ Or the legality of the proposal itself may be impugned in various ways; it may for instance be urged that the law was not promulgated within seventeen ² days, or was proposed, or is being proposed on an improper day, or in defiance of the tribunicial veto or the auspices or any other legal obstacle, or again that it is contrary to some existing law.

Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.

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[35] aut enim de iure dubitari potest eius, qui rogat, ut de P. Clodi, qui non rite creatus tribunus arguebatur; aut de ipsius rogationis, quod est varium, sive non trino forte nundino promulgata sive non idoneo die, sive contra intercessionem vel auspicia aliudve quid, quod legitimis obstet, dicitur lata esse vel ferri, sive alicui manentium legum repugnare.

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1. Clodius was a patrician and got himself made a plebeian by adoption to enable him to hold the tribunate. The question of the legality of this procedure is discussed by Cicero in the de Domo, 13–17.

2. Lit. within the space of three market-days. nundinum =9 days, the second market-day being the ninth, and forming the last day of the first nundinum and the first of the second. Similarly the third market-day is the last day of the second nundinum and the first of the third.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 2.4.35

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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