[1317] See p. 270 n. 2.
[1318] In a rough estimate of the house (61 B.C.) Cicero mentions 15 on one side of a question, “quite 400” on the other (ad Att. i. 14, 5). On Curio’s proposal in 50 B.C. that both Pompeius and Caesar should lay down their commands, 22 dissented, 370 approved (App. B.C. ii. 30). In the latter case there seems to have been no formal division (see p. 268 n. 2); and in both the small numbers may be the result of exact computation, the large either of a guess or of a deduction drawn from an already counted quorum.
[1319] “Verbo adsentiri” (Sall. Cat. 52); cf. Cic. ad Fam. v. 2, 9 “sedens iis adsensi.”
[1320] “In alienam sententiam pedibus ire” (Gell. iii. 18, 1).
[1321] The invitation to divide on the sententia was couched in the form “Qui hoc censetis, illuc transite: qui alia omnia, in hanc partem” (Festus p. 261). Hence the colloquial phrase “ire in alia omnia” for negativing a proposal at the Senate (Cic. ad Fam. i. 2, 1).
[1322] Cic. ad Att. i. 14, 3 “totum hunc locum, quem ego ... soleo pingere, de flamma, de ferro—nosti illas ληκύθους.”
[1323] p. 179.
[1324] Cic. ad Fam. viii. 8, 5 ff. In § 6 we find the formula “Si quis huic s. c. intercesserit, senatui placere auctoritatem perscribi.”
[1325] ib. l.c. § 6 “Pr. Kal. Octobres in aede Apollinis scrib. adfuerunt L. Domitius Cn. f. Fab. Ahenobarbus,” etc.
[1326] p. 148.