AMPĬA, to allow Cn. Pompeius to wear a crown of bay at the Ludi
Circenses, &c. Proposed by T. Ampius and T. Labienus, tr. pl. B.C.
64.
ANNĀLIS or VILLĬA, proposed by L. Villius Tapulus in B.C. 179,
fixed the age at which a Roman citizen might become a candidate for
the higher magistracies. It appears that until this law was passed,
any office might be enjoyed by a citizen after completing his
twenty-seventh year. The Lex Annalis fixed 31 as the age for the
quaestorship, 37 for the aedileship, 40 for the praetorship, and 43
for the consulship.