Vicende istituzionali ed epigrafia a Casinum

The institutional framework of Casinum in the 1st century B.C. can be recreated especially thanks to the epigraphic evidence. Some of the inscriptions known in the past and then lost, have been recently found again. The existence of a praefectus sent by the urban praetor in uncertain before the Social War; afterwards Casinum was a duoviral municipium until the colony was deducted not before the second half of the 1st century A.D. We don't know the original name of the magistrates (praetores?), but after the Social War the duoviri were generally elected every year. The C. Futius praefectus Casinatium mentioned in CIL, X 5193-5194, probably could be due to a lacking election of the duoviri in the mid. 1st century B.C., which caused the decurions to elected a local notable responsible for the administration of the city. The function exercited by C. Futius can however also be interpreted differently, because it remains indeterminable due to lack of other sources in this regard.