Scholars disagree about some differences among and . Some maintain the difference was not substantial. Others, among them Dumézil, believe that inherent differences lay in the right of the "auspicia maiora" and the ritual of inauguration that concerned only the by birth as , that is, as children of parents married through the ritual of confarreatio, which was the form of marriage in turn required for . The also had the privilege of having , assistants who carried out day-to-day business. The difference would thus be akin to that between magistracies with and those with only.