It does not even appear that Sulla now resumed the previously attempted restoration of the Servian voting-arrangement;( 21) whether it was that he regarded the particular composition of the voting- divisions as altogether a matter of indifference, or whether it was that this older arrangement seemed to him to augment the dangerous influence of the capitalists.

Only the qualifications were restored and partially raised.

The limit of age requisite for the holding of each office was enforced afresh; as was also the enactment that every candidate for the consulship should have previously held the praetorship, and every candidate for the praetorship should have previously held the quaestorship, whereas the aedileship was allowed to be passed over.

The various attempts that had been recently made to establish a -tyrannis- under the form of a consulship continued for several successive years led to special rigour in dealing with this abuse; and it was enacted that at least two years should elapse between the holding of one magistracy and the holding of another, and at least ten years should elapse before the same office could be held a second time.

In this latter enactment the earlier ordinance of 412 (22) was revived, instead of the absolute prohibition of all re-election to the consulship, which had been the favourite idea of the most recent ultra-oligarchical epoch.( 23) On the whole, however, Sulla left the elections to take their course, and sought merely to fetter the power of the magistrates in such a way that--let the incalculable caprice of the comitia call to office whomsoever it might--the person elected should not be in a position to rebel against the oligarchy.
Weakening of the Tribunate of the People The supreme magistrates of the state were at this period practically the three colleges of the tribunes of the people, the consuls and praetors, and the censors.