[1227] Plut. Mar. 43; cf. Vell. ii. 21; App. B.C. i. 70.
[1228] App. B.C. iii. 95.
[1229] Vell. ii. 58; cf. Cic. Phil. i. 1, 1.
[1230] Dio Cass. xlix. 43.
[1231] pp. 166, 179.
[1232] p. 239.
[1233] When Varro says (L.L. vi. 30) “magistratus vitio creatus nihilo secius magistratus” he is reflecting the practical procedure—hardly the constitutional theory, unless the dictum implies that repeal is impossible because unnecessary, and that there is no authority for determining the nullity of the election.
[1234] Cicero says, with respect to the law exiling him, that there was some point in its being held invalid as a privilegium, “sed multo est melius abrogari” (ad Att. iii. 15, 5).
[1235] Laelius Felix ap. Gell. xv. 27, 5 “Cum ex generibus hominum suffragium feratur, ‘curiata’ comitia esse, cum ex censu et aetate ‘centuriata,’ cum ex regionibus et locis, ‘tributa.’”
[1236] How easily one comitia could melt into another is shown by the words of Cicero [ad Fam. vii. 30 (44 B.C.)] “Ille autem (Caesar), qui comitiis tributis esset auspicatus, centuriata habuit.”