[587] ib.; Val. Max. ii. 2, 9. Nothing is said about their division into classes; according to the arrangement of the reformed comitia centuriata (see the section on the comitia), this restriction to four tribes would have given them the command of only forty centuries.
[588] Liv. xlv. 15.
[589] Auct. de Vir. Ill. 72 (M. Aemilius Scaurus) “consul legem de sumptibus et libertinorum suffragiis tulit”; Willems Droit Public Rom. p. 123.
[590] Dio Cass. xxxvi. 25.
[591] Liv. Ep. 84.
[592] Exceptions due to the stress of times are mentioned for the years 296 (Liv. x. 21) and 217 (Liv. xxii. 11). Even in the social war they formed cohorts separate from the legions.
[593] First mentioned in 217 B.C. (Liv. xxii. 11).
[594] See the section on the magistracy (p. 184).
[595] e.g. the institution of the censor, praetor, curule aediles, and (although they are not a part of the developed constitution), the consular tribunes.
[596] p. 121.