John Maddox Roberts - [SPQR Roman Mysteries 8.6]-Mightier Than The Sword - Plot & Excerpts
Building inspection is part of the job, and you can spend your whole year just prosecuting violations of the building codes, never mind putting on the Games and inspecting all the whorehouses, also part of the job. And I'd landed the office in a year when a plebeian couldn't be Curule Aedile. The Curule got to wear a purple border on his toga and sat around the markets all day in a folding chair, attended by a lictor and levying fines for violations of the market laws. No, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus got that job. Well, he never amounted to anything, so there is justice in the world, after all. Mind you, he got to be Triumvir some years later, but considering that the other two were Antony and Octavian, he might as well have been something unpleasant adhering to the heel of Octavian's sandal. And the worst thing was, you didn't have to serve as Aedile to stand for higher office! It was just that you had not a prayer of being elected Praetor unless, as Aedile, you put on splendid Games as a gift to the people.
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