Abstract
A MUCH-DISCUSSED point in the dating of this work is the reference to Aulus Cascellius.1 Not much is known of this eminent jurist.2 It is fairly certain that he was urban praetor in 41 B.c., but until recently (or comparatively so) there was no extant indication of the date of his birth. Fortunately, in the SC de Oropiis of 73 B.C. (discovered in 1884) he appears as a member of the consular concilium (his name is No. 8 on the list; that of Marcus Tullius Cicero, No. II). From the order of precedence and the date of the document itself, Mommsen concluded that Cascellius was quaestor in 74 and was born not later than 104.3 He obtains this result by taking thirty years as the minimum age for the quaestorship. There can be no doubt but that in the period between Sulla's revision of the constitution and the death of Caesar the quaestorship could be legally held at this age (Cicero was quaestor in 75), but it is also true (as Mommsen4 himself has shown) that, while legal, it was, in a sense, an exception. Under ordinary circumstances a minimum of
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