[497] Pompon. l.c. §§ 37, 38. Gaius Scipio Nasica was given a house for consultations. The first professor, Ti. Coruncanius (“qui primus profiteri coepit,” circ. 280 B.C.), was also the first plebeian pontifex maximus.
[498] Polyb. vi. 53.
[499] Cic. in Verr. v. 14, 36 “togam praetextam, sellam curulem, jus imaginis ad memoriam posteritatemque prodendae.”
[500] In other words, images of other than curule ancestors might be set up in the atrium.
[501] p. 22.
[502] Sallust. Jug. 95 (of Sulla) “gentis patriciae nobilis fuit, familia prope jam exstincta majorum ignavia.”
[503] Cic. pro Mur. 7. 16; Ascon. in Scaurian. p. 22.
[504] Dionys. vii. 71.
[505] Cf. Cic. de Off. ii. 17, 58 “Vitanda tamen suspicio est avaritiae. Mamerco, homini divitissimo, praetermissio aedilitatis consulatus repulsam attulit.”
[506] Liv. xxii. 34 (of the election of Varro, 217 B.C.) “Patres summa ope obstabant, ne se insectando sibi aequari adsuescerent homines.”