[1557] Cic. de Rep. v. 6, 8 (ad Att. viii. 11, 1); v. 7, 9.
[1558] p. 224.
[1559] p. 314.
[1560] Caesar reduced the number of the recipients of the corn-dole from 320,000 to 150,000 (Suet. Caes. 41). In the Principate it stood at about 200,000. See Marquardt Staatsverw. ii. p. 118.
[1561] p. 312.
[1562] p. 311.
[1563] It is true, however, that the Princeps was often made by an army, not by the army.
[1564] Dio Cass. xlii. 20. The dictatorship of 49 B.C. had been held only for eleven days and was probably conferred merely comitiorum habendorum causa. See p. 193.
[1565] Dio Cass. xliii. 14 and 33. It has been interpreted as a dictatorship rei publicae constituendae causa.
[1566] C.I.L. i. p. 452.