[230] Ignorance of the calendar, and of the method of fixing the festivals, left to the pontiffs alone the knowledge of the days when it was permitted to plead.
[231] “The lawyers, for fear that their services might become useless in judicial proceedings, invented certain formulæ, in order to make themselves necessary.” (Cicero, Pro Murena, xi.)
[232] Titus Livius, Epitome, XI.—Pliny, XVI. x. 37.
[233] Cicero, Brutus, C. xiv.—Zonaras, Annales, VIII. 2.
[234] “You see here all the principal senators who set you the example. They will partake with you the fatigues and perils of war, although the laws and their age exempt them from carrying arms.” (Speech of the Dictator Postumius to his troops; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, VI. 9.)
[235] Titus Livius, X., XII. 49.
[236] Valerius Maximus, II. viii. 4, 7.
[237] Plutarch, Flamininus, xxviii.
[238] Aur. Victor, Ill. Men, xxxvi. and xxvii.
[239] Titus Livius, IX. 10