[607] Liv. vi. 1; viii. 23.
[608] Cic. pro Dom. 14, 38, quoted p. 131.
[609] Willems le Sénat ii. pp. 14, 16.
[610] p. 126.
[611] See Appendix on the comitia tributa.
[612] p. 89.
[613] The power of this body was much increased by the long wars waged in West and East; but its ascendency was assured before these wars began. See the section on the Senate.
[614] For an instance of its cumulative use see Cic. in Verr. act. i. 13, 37 “erit tunc consul Hortensius cum summo imperio et potestate”; for one of its disjunctive uses see Dig. 4, 6, 26, 2 “consulem praetorem ceterosque qui imperium potestatemve quam habent.”
[615] p. 79.
[616] Mommsen (Staatsr. i. p. 203) denies the right of the quaestor to issue edicts; but the absence of distinct mention of quaestorian edicts is no ground for denying him what appears to have been a common magisterial right.