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the descendents of the later veterans were also allowed to participate in
governing the city since numerous Aelii were found in philippopolis and
its territory alongside the Flavii. Some of the latter might actually belonged
to the thracian aristocracy romanized under the Flavii as we will note in
the next section.
2. Methodology
Fig. 1.
the lack of any concrete evidence such as cursus honorum for
promoting the roman veterans into different local governing structures in
philippopolis would lead to the conclusion that the veterans had never been
elected. But this is only at first glance. As one may observe after studying the
inscriptions, many but not all of the magistrates hold roman names. Some
of them are typically roman military names and the persons are actually
descendents of the veterans. It seems that the promotion of the veterans and
their descendents into the governing institution is to be done only by studying