[877] In the single case of the election of a dictator, the magister equitum was also elected (Liv. xxii. 8).
[878] Dio Cass. xlii. 27; Antonius, as Caesar’s magister equitum, had six lictors.
[879] Cic. de Leg. iii. 3, 9 “equitatumque qui regat, habeto pari jure cum eo, quicumque erit juris disceptator.”
[880] Pompon. in Dig. 1, 2, 2, 19 “et his dictatoribus magistri equitum injungebantur sic, quo modo regibus tribuni celerum: ... magistratus tamen habebantur legitimi.”
[881] Liv. iv. 34 “jussoque magistro equitum abdicare se magistratu, ipse deinde abdicat.”
[882] Liv. ix. 38 “Papirius C. Junium Bubulcum magistrum equitum dixit: atque ei, legem curiatam de imperio ferenti, triste omen diem diffidit.”
[883] Cic. de Leg. iii. 4, 10; see p. 160.
[884] Liv. viii. 32 sq.; cf. xxii. 27 “in ... civitate, in qua magistri equitum virgas ac secures dictatoris tremere atque horrere soliti sint.”
[885] ib. iv. 27 “relictoque (at Rome) L. Julio magistro equitum ad subita belli ministeria.”
[886] ib. ii. 18; Dio Cass. xlii. 21 (Caesar τὸν Ἀντώνιον, μηδ’ ἐστρατηγηκότα, ἵππαρχον προσελόμενος).