[437] If it be taken to prove that the preponderance of voting power in the comitia centuriata was still on the side of the Patricians, it would throw a valuable side-light on the relative economic position of the two orders.
[438] Imperium (Tab. Lugd. quoted p. 112); potestas (Liv. iv. 6); jus (Tac. Ann. i. 1).
[439] Liv. iv. 7 “et imperio et insignibus consularibus usos.”
[440] ib. v. 13, 52.
[441] “Proconsularis imago” (Liv. v. 2).
[442] Zonar. vii. 19.
[443] Liv. iv. 55 “pervincunt, ut senatus consultum fiat de tribunis militum creandis”; iv. 12 “cum ... obtinuisset, ut consulerentur patres, consulum an tribunorum placeret comitia haberi.” Dionysius (xi. 60) represents the people as being consulted too.
[444] i.e. in accordance with the law, if there was one, establishing the office.
[445] Momms. Staatsr. ii. p. 191.
[446] Liv. iv. 8 “ortum autem initium est rei, quod in populo, per multos annos incenso, neque differri census poterat, neque consulibus, cum tot populorum bella imminerent, operae erat id negotium agere.” Cf. Dionys. xi. 63.