By-the-by-I've resigned my Candidateship."
"Thelma"
Marie Corelli
During the spring months Nature lore was very much to the fore, and the members qualified for Candidateship to the various grades by exhibiting their knowledge of the ways and habits of birds.
"For the Sake of the School"
Angela Brazil
This year, Publius Cornelius Scipio, afterwards surnamed Africanus, held the office of curule aedile, with Marcus Cornelius Cethegus; and when the tribunes of the people opposed his pretensions to the aedileship, alleging, that no notice ought to be taken of him, because he had not attained the legal age for Candidateship, he observed, "if the citizens in general are desirous of appointing me aedile, I am old enough."
"The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six"
Titus Livius