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Did Roman senators sometimes get "stuck" at the lower end of the totem pole, continually holding minor magistracies as they got older? Or at some point did the unsuccessful ones stop running for offices and just sit in the senate?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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