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- The " Lex Ovinia " set specific criteria for such appointments or removals ( although these are not precisely known ).
- In the period following the " Lex Ovinia ", the Consuls were gradually reduced to executive servants of the Senate.
- He married Ovinia Paterna, born c . 220, daughter of Lucius Ovinius Pacatianus and wife Cornelia Optata Aquilia Flavia, and had a son Marcus Tineius Ovinius Castus Pulcher in 240 AD.
- He probably married a woman from the " gens Ovinia ", and together they had at least one child, Lucius Caesonius Ovinius Manlius Rufinianus Bassus, who was suffect consul twice.
- This situation changed with the " Lex Ovinia " ( promulgated sometime in the period 339-318 BC ), which transferred authority to appoint ( and remove ) members of the Senate from the Consuls to the Censors, two new Magistrates elected at 5-yearly intervals, whose specific job was to hold a census of Roman citizens and their property.