by various authors, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities… (1890)
“ ABROGA ́TIO MAGISTRA ́TUS The deposition of a magistrate from his office by any legal process was, strictly speaking, unknown to the Roman constitution (Becker, Rhein. Mus. N. S., 4.293) . The only legitimate termination of the magistrate's power was his own abdication. But (1) it was in the power of a superior magistrate to forbid an inferior one to exercise his official functions (vetare quicquam agere pro magistratu) : thus the dictator L. Quinctius in B.C. 458 suspended the consul L. Minucius from his office (Liv. 3.29, 2; Dionys. A. R. 10.25) ; and. ”
