[507] Sallust. Jug. 63 “consulatum nobilitas inter se per manus tradebat; novus nemo tam clarus neque tam egregiis factis erat, quin indignus illo honore, et is quasi pollutus, haberetur.”
[508] Cic. pro Domo 14, 38 “Ita populus Romanus brevi tempore, neque regem sacrorum, neque flamines, neque salios habebit, nec ex parte dimidia reliquos sacerdotes, neque auctores centuriatorum et curiatorum comitiorum: auspiciaque populi Romani, si magistratus patricii creati non sint, intereant necesse est, cum interrex nullus sit, quod et ipsum patricium esse et a patriciis prodi necesse est.” The passage is closely followed by Livy vi. 41, in the speech against the Licinio-Sextian laws, with which he credits Appius Claudius. We meet with other archaic survivals in connexion with the Senate—the distinction, e.g., between the “greater and lesser gentes” (p. 12) was never lost, and the chief of the Senate, the first member on the list, was always chosen from the gentes majores (see p. 12).
[509] Ulpian Reg. v. 8 “conubio interveniente liberi semper patrem sequuntur; non interveniente conubio matris conditioni accedunt, excepto eo qui ex peregrino et cive Romana peregrinus nascitur, quoniam lex Mensia [“Minicia” has been read in the Veronese palimpsest of the parallel passage of Gaius i. 78, ed. Krueger and Studemund] ex alterutro peregrino natum deterioris parentis conditionem sequi jubet.”
[510] Or, in the Principate, an administrative act. See the section on the powers of the Princeps.
[511] p. 6.
[512] Beloch Der Italische Bund pp. 101, 102.
[513] Tac. Ann. xi. 25; Beloch op. cit. p. 78. According to Beloch (l.c.) a comparison between the ante-imperial and post-imperial census is vitiated by the fact that the aerarii were excluded from the former, included in the latter. See the section on the censor.
[514] Lex Acilia Repetundarum 1. 76.
[515] Cic. pro Balbo 10, 25 “quod iis ... liceat, si populus Romanus permiserit, ut ab senatu, ab imperatoribus nostris, civitate donentur.”
[516] Cic. Brut. 20, 79; pro Balbo 21, 48.