The Highest Magistracies in the Roman Republic

Cicero was elected as one of four Ediles in 70 BCE at the age of 36. As an Edile he used his connections with Sicily to help keep grain prices low. The second highest magistracie in the republic was that of the Pritor, or in Latin Prador. A political outsider, a person like Cicero was called a Novus homo, or new man. He'd climbed the ladder of offices with neither senatorial status nor familial precedence.