EDICT OF THE CONSULS ON MAGISTERIAL AUSPICES
   
After 449 BC )
 

 
( Johnson, Coleman-Norton & Bourne, Ancient Roman Statutes, Austin, 1961, p. 18, n. 8a
 ).

 

 
     In the consular edict, by which the consuls appointed the day for the Centuriate Assembly to convene, an old established formula forbade minor magistrates to observe the skies for omens.
 

 
ENGLISH TRANSLATION.
 

 
     No minor magistrate shall watch the sky.