Mamercus was a very wealthy man, and his refusal of the aedileship was the cause of his defeat for the consulship. |
Promotion to the aedileship was automatic for patricians, but Vespasian wasn't a patrician. |
Also in 366 BC, the praetorship and curule aedileship were created. |
This brought him into conflict with the aristocratic party, who prevented him from obtaining the aedileship. |
Plancius, accused of organizing clubs to secure by bribery his election to the aedileship. |
Other magistracies, the aedileship and the tribunate of the plebs, might be held between quaestorship and praetorship, but were not obligatory. |