[102] The motive for dating it so early was perhaps this, that Coriolanus was judged by it.
[103] I, 2, 29. cf. II, 2, 2.—Germ. Edit.
[104] The nature of the cury had essentially altered in the course of time. R. H. II, p. 178.—Germ. Ed.
[105] The history of the constitution of Elis offers a close parallel to that of Rome. The highest magistracy in that state was at first held for life. As late as in the Peloponnesian war, the clans of Elis alone are sovereign, and the country district is in a state of subjection, the whole of the power being in the hands of a council of ninety men who were elected for life. The people was divided into three phylæ, of thirty clans each. Afterwards the country district obtained the right of citizenship. The whole of Elis is divided into twelve regions, and the nation into twelve tribes; four of the latter are lost during the war, so that eight tribes only remain. This is an unmistakeable counterpart of the Roman history.
[106] See concerning this relation R. H. II., p. 419-423.—Germ. Ed.
[107] In some recent editions of Livy, we find Clœlius instead of Cæcilius; yet this is an emendation: in Dionysius the MSS. have Κλύσιον.—Germ. Edit.
[108] A double disquisition on the same subject (for it occurs here, and now and then in some other places), is to be accounted for from the circumstance that it had to be interrupted at the end of a lecture, and that afterwards in the following one the thread of the argument was not quite accurately taken up.—Germ. Edit.
[109] Enigmatical is what occurs in Livy and elsewhere, that a special law had been granted for a dictator, ut ei equum escendere liceret. The way in which this is interpreted, is that the dictator was not entitled to mount on horseback, whilst the Magister Equitum was. Perhaps the dictator was not only entitled to make use of a carriage, but even he was not entitled to appear in any other way but in a carriage, particularly on his return from battle. To this refers a line in Varro, Dictator ubi currum insedit vehitur usque ad oppidum. Oppidum, according to Varro, is properly speaking the townwall (also a town surrounded by walls in contradistinction to pagus and vicus).
[110] Festus, s. v. Præteriti Senatores, R. H. I. note 1163.—Germ. Ed.
[111] Cic. pro Cluent. c. 42. Ascon. in Orat. Tog. Cand. p. 84 Orell.