[48] Dionys. ii. 46.
[49] Liv. iv. 4 “nobilitatem vestram per cooptationem in patres habetis”; Suet. Tib. 1 “gens Claudia in patricios cooptata.” So Servius and Numa are said to have been transferred by the Populus from the ranks of the δῆμος to those of the πατρίκιοι.
[50] As is implied in Suet. Aug. 2 (quoted p. 7).
[51] Dionys. v. 13.
[52] Liv. ii. 2 “Brutus ad populum tulit ut omnes Tarquiniae gentis exsules essent”; Varro ap. Non. p. 222 “omnes Tarquinios ejicerent, ne quam reditionis per gentilitatem spem haberent.”
[53] Suet Tib. 1 “Patricia gens Claudia ... orta est ex Regillis, oppido Sabinorum ... post reges exactos sexto fere anno, in patricias cooptata. Agrum insuper trans Anienem clientibus, locumque sibi ad sepulturam sub Capitolio, publice accepit.” Cf. Liv. ii. 16 (cited p. 7).
[54] Dionys. v. 40.
[55] ib. ii. 7.
[56] Cic. de Rep. ii. 14, 26.
[57] Momms. Staatsr. iii. p. 23.