[168] Festus p. 209 “Picta quae nunc toga dicitur purpurea ante vocitata est eaque erat sine pictura.” It was already picta (διάχρυσος) in Polybius’ time (Polyb. vi. 53).
[169] Liv. i. 56.
[170] “Arvi et arbusta et pascui lati atque uberes” (Cic. de Rep. v. 2, 3). Cf. Liv. ii. 5.
[171] p. 8.
[172] Cic. de Rep. ii. 12, 24 “Nostri illi etiam turn agrestes viderunt virtutem et sapientiam regalem, non progeniem quaeri oportere.” Cf. App. B.C. i. 98.
[173] Liv. i. 7 and 18.
[174] Liv. i. 17; Cic. de Rep. ii. 17, 31.
[175] The interregnum, though only an occasional office in the Republic, is represented as an invariable part of the procedure in the transmission of the kingly power (Liv. i. 47).
[176] Dionys. v. 1; Liv. xl. 42.
[177] Tac. Ann. i. 14 and 81; Dio Cass. liii. 21, 7; lviii. 20, 3.