[138] Cic. de Div. ii. 36, 76 “a populo auspicia accepta habemus.” The relation of auspicia habere to the spectio is that the former denotes the abstract right of questioning the gods, the latter its exercise in a particular case (Momms. Staatsr. i. 89 n. 3). The specification by the magistrate of the signs which he wished to see was known as legum dictio (Serv. ad Aen. iii. 89; cf. p. 43 n. 2).
[139] A similar confusion was at an earlier period introduced with reference to the givers of the auspices. They are said to be given by the people (Cic. de Div. ii. 36, 76; p. 39), but the great bulk of the people (i.e. the Plebs) did not possess them.
[140] p. 3.
[141] Dionys. iv. 14 (Servius Tullius) τὰς καταγραφὰς τῶν στρατιωτῶν καὶ τὰς εἰσπράξεις τῶν χρημάτων ... οὐκέτι κατὰ τὰς τρεῖς φυλὰς τὰς γενικάς, ὡς πρότερον, κ.τ.λ. Varro L.L. v. 181 “Tributum dictum a tribubus, quod ea pecunia, quae populo imperata erat, tributim a singulis pro portione census exigebatur.”
[142] From legere, Varro L.L. v. 87.
[143] Varro L.L. v. 89 “milites quod trium milium primo legio fiebat, ac singulae tribus Titiensium, Ramnium, Lucerum milia singula militum mittebant.”
[144] ib. 81 “tribuni militum quod terni tribus tribubus Ramnium, Lucerum, Titium olim ad exercitum mittebantur.” On the other hand, Servius (in Aen. v. 560) says that the tribuni were so called because they presided over one-third of the whole force.
[145] p. 12.
[146] Liv. i. 36.
[147] e.g. Calabra, Foriensis, Veliensis. Other names (such as Titia) may be eponymous.