[467] ib. 17 “dictator C. Marcius Rutilus primus de plebe dictus”; he appointed a plebeian master of the horse.
[468] ib. 22. The same C. Marcius Rutilus “professus censuram se petere” was elected.
[469] ib. viii. 12 “ut alter utique ex plebe ... censor crearetur.”
[470] ib. Ep. 59 “Q. Pompeius et Q. Metellus, tunc primum utrique ex plebe facti, censores lustrum condiderunt.”
[471] Liv. vii. 42. The law was proposed by the tribune L. Genucius. It was not, however, until the year 172 B.C. that both consuls were plebeian (Liv. xlii. 9; Fast. Cap. C.I.L. i. 1 p. 25).
[472] p. 52.
[473] Livy (x. 6) marvels at the fact; he thinks that it must have been accidental (“morte duorum”), since the augural college should have consisted of three or of a multiple of three. Cicero (de Rep. ii. 9, 16) says that Romulus coopted (cooptavit) one from each of the three tribes; they were therefore four; that Numa added two (ib. ii. 14, 26). This makes six, which Livy (l.c.) thinks the normal number at the time of the passing of the Ogulnian law.
[474] Liv. x. 6. These numbers remained unaltered until the time of Sulla (81 B.C.), who raised the colleges of pontiffs and augurs to fifteen (Liv. Ep. 89). A sixteenth was added to both colleges by Julius Caesar (Dio Cass. xlii. 51).
[475] Liv. xxxiii. 42. The number was afterwards increased to seven, from which time the college was known as that of the VIIviri epulones.
[476] Marquardt Staatsverw. iii. p. 333.