[238] ib. 17 and 35; ii. 1. On the nature of this increase see Willems Le Sénat p. 21.
[239] p. 13.
[240] p. 12.
[241] Liv. i. 32.
[242] Dionys. ii. 14. One of the privileges of the people was περὶ πολέμου διαγινώσκειν ὃταν ὁ βασιλεύς ἐφῇ.
[243] Cic. de Rep. ii. 9, 15 “Cum ipse (Romulus) nihil ex praeda domum suam reportaret, locupletare cives non destitit”; ii. 14, 26 “ac primum agros, quos bello Romulus ceperat, divisit viritim civibus.” Cf. Dionys. ii. 28 and 62.
[244] Liv. i. 49 “cognitiones capitalium rerum sine consiliis per se solus exercebat.”
[245] ib. 59; see p. 41.
[246] Tac. Ann. vi. 11 “namque antea, profectis domo regibus ac mox magistratibus, ne urbs sine imperio foret, in tempus deligebatur qui jus redderet ac subitis mederetur ... duratque simulacrum, quotiens ob ferias Latinas praeficitur qui consulare munus usurpet.” Cf. Liv. i. 59; Dionys. ii. 12.
[247] Yet Livy and Dionysius represent the tribunus celerum as summoning the assembly (Liv. i. 59; Dionys. iv. 71).