08/04/2023
« integrated the , chose new patricians, expanded the number of praetors, construction workers, quaestors, and even minor magistracies. He rehabilitated citizens who, through the intervention of the censors or by conviction for fraud by the judges, had been stripped of their prerogatives. He divided the elections between himself and the people, so that, with the exception of the candidates for the consulship, as regards the remaining number of candidates, half were proclaimed those whom the people wanted, and the other half those whom he himself nominated. And he indicated them using notes sent to the various tribes, with a few lines: "Caesar dictator to such and such a tribe: I commend such and such to you, so that with your vote they may have their office". He also admitted the sons of the proscribed to the positions. He reserved the trials to two categories of judges, of the equestrian order and of the senatorial order; instead he suppressed the "tribunes of the revenue", which were the third. He took the census of the population regardless of the practice and the usual places, but neighborhood by neighborhood, making use of the owners of the buildings. He reduced from 320,000 to 150,000 those receiving subsidies in wheat from the . In order to avoid that, during the revision of the census, gatherings would get agitated, he established that every year, in place of the deceased ones, the praetor would draw lots among those who had not been included in the previous list. ( , Divus Julius, 41)