Suffragium Explained

Suffragium (plural suffragia) was the practice of buying and selling provincial governorships in the later Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire. Suffragium was prohibited by Justinian I in 535 AD.

Literature

• Book: Arnold Hugh Martin Jones. Arnold Hugh Martin Jones. The Later Roman Empire, 284-602: A Social Economic and Administrative Survey. 1964. Taylor & Francis. 391-396. 9780801833540. Jones.