[1297] Tribus or centurias non explere is said of such candidates (Liv. iii. 64; xxxvii. 47). Cf. Liv. xxii. 35.
[1298] Cic. in Pis. 15, 36 “hoc certe video quod indicant tabulae publicae vos rogatores, vos diribitores, vos custodes fuisse tabularum.” It is the list of votes as certified by the guardians and tellers rather than the separate voting tablets that Cicero here speaks of. But the tablets themselves were kept for a time in loculi (Varro R.R. iii. 5, 18).
[1299] Cic. de Leg. iii. 20, 46 “Legum custodiam nullam habemus. Itaque eae leges sunt quas apparisores nostri volunt; a librariis petimus.”
[1300] See the evidences collected by Mommsen (Staatsr. iii. pp. 418-419). It is from this practice that figere and refigere are used of the publication and annulling of laws.
[1301] p. 219.
[1302] Cic. pro Sest. 65, 137 “senatum reipublicae custodem, praesidem, propugnatorem collocaverunt (majores); hujus ordinis auctoritate uti magistratus et quasi ministros gravissimi consilii esse voluerunt.”
[1303] Festus p. 142 “mulleos genus calceorum aiunt esse, quibus reges Albanorum primi, deinde patricii sunt usi.”
[1304] Hence the distinction between the patrician and plebeian form of shoe (Mommsen Staatsr. iii. p. 891). In the time of Cato the elder this footgear was only worn by the plebeian senator “qui magistratum curulem cepisset” (Festus l.c.).
[1305] For an investiture of boys with the latus clavus earlier than the rule of Augustus, see Suet. Aug. 94.
[1306] Tac. Ann. xi. 22 “post lege Sullae viginti (quaestores) creati supplendo senatui.”