| A Government minister cannot bargain with individual members of the magistracy. |
| If they must tackle it with purpose, they will need back-up from the laws applicable to illegal guns, and from the magistracy and judiciary. |
| The magistracy continued to be controlled by patricians until 351 BC, when Gaius Marcius Rutilus was appointed the first plebeian censor. |
| Amicitia principum, friendship with the emperor, was a sure way of gaining access to senatorial magistracies and other honorable positions. |
| Other magistracies, the aedileship and the tribunate of the plebs, might be held between quaestorship and praetorship, but were not obligatory. |
| Such magistracies ranged from feeding the homeless, enforcing sumptuary laws, protecting common lands, to protecting abused women, among other tasks. |
