[198] Festus p. 113; Macrob. i. 15, 19.
[199] Liv. i. 20 “Numa Pontificem ... Numam Marcium M. f. ex patribus legit, eique sacra omnia exscripta exsignataque attribuit, quibus hostiis, quibus diebus, ad quae templa sacra fierent, atque unde in eos suraptus pecunia erogaretur. Cetera quoque omnia publica privataque sacra Pontificis scitis subjecit, ut esset, quo consultum plebes veniret: ne quid divini juris, negligendo patrios ritus, peregrinos que adsciscendo, turbaretur, etc.” But afterwards (in 449 B.C.) Livy (iii. 54) implies the existence of a college, without mentioning its institution. Cf. iv. 44.
[200] Cic. de Rep. ii. 14, 26.
[201] Liv. x. 6.
[202] Bouché-Leclercq Les Pontifes de l’ancienne Rome p. 9. That the king was pontiff is stated by Plutarch (Numa 9), Servius (ad Aen. iii. 81), and Zosimus (iv. 36), but the evidence may be vitiated by the position of the Princeps as pontifex maximus.
[203] Liv. i. 20 (p. 51 n. 5); cf. Ambrosch Studien p. 22.
[204] Cic. de Rep. ii. 9, 16; de Div. i. 2, 3.
[205] Liv. i. 20 “Tum sacerdotibus creandis animum adjecit, quamquam ipse plurima sacra obibat, ea maxime quae nunc ad Dialem flaminem pertinent.”
[206] As, e.g., the nomination of Flamines belonged to the Latin dictator (Ascon. in Milon. p. 32).
[207] Gaius i. 130. The same was the case with the Vestal (Gell. i. 12).