[158] Dionys. iii. 62; Cic. de Rep. ii. 17, 31.
[159] Tac. Ann. xi. 22; Ulp. in Dig. i. 13.
[160] Varro L.L. v. 80 “Praetor dictus, qui praeiret jure et exercitu.” But the title is, perhaps, a purely military one (prae-itor, “the man who goes before the army”).
[161] Festus p. 198 “in magistro populi faciendo, qui vulgo Dictator appellatur.”
[162] Cic. de Rep. i. 26, 42. Regnum denotes the position of the king as head of the state (ib. ii. 27), but not the regal power.
[163] Lictor is probably derived from licere. For other attempts at derivation see Gell. xii. 8. They summon, not only to the assembly, but also to the courts, and are thus the chief mark of jurisdiction and coercive power (coercitio). The individual curiae were probably summoned by the thirty lictores curiatii, who survive into the later Republic. See Momms. Staatsr. i. p. 392. For the number of lictors that accompanied the king see Cic. de Rep. ii. 17, 31; Liv. i. 8; Dionys. ii. 29; iii. 61, 62.
[164] Serv. in Aen. vii. 188, 612; xi. 334; Ov. Fast. ii. 503.
[165] Cic. de Fin. ii. 21, 69; Dionys. iii. 61.
[166] Festus p. 49 “currules magistrates appellati sunt, quia curru vehebantur.”
[167] Dionys. iv. 74.