[887] Dionys. ii. 6 τῶν δὲ παρόντων τινὲς ὀρνιθοσκόπων μισθὸν ἐκ τοῦ δημοσίου φερόμενοι.
[888] Cic. post Red. ad Quir. 5, 11. The first meeting of the Senate was in early times held by the elder of the two consuls (ὁ πρεσβύτερος τῶν ὑπάτων Dionys. vi. 57).
[889] Cic. pro Planc. 25, 60 “honorum populi finis est consulatus.”
[890] App. B.C. ii. 19. In formal dating the names of the two chief praetors were added. See the Senatus Consultum de Asclepiade (Bruns Fontes).
[891] Suet. Tib. 31; see p. 191.
[892] Liv. xliv. 17 (169 B.C.) “designatos extemplo sortiri placuit provincias.”
[893] ib. ii. 33 “consul alter Romae mansit, alter ad Volscum bellum missus”; cf. Dionys. vi. 91; Liv. ix. 42.
[894] Cic. de Rep. ii. 31, 55.
[895] Festus p. 161 “majorem consulem L. Caesar putat dici, vel eum penes quem fasces sint, vel eum, qui prior factus sit.” The first explanation is doubtless the correct one.
[896] Suet. Caes. 20.