[727] Appian, I. 100.—Velleius Paterculus, II. 31.—The auxilium was the protection accorded by the tribune of the people to whoever claimed it.
[728] Appian, Civil Wars, I. 100 et seq.
[729] Appian, Civil Wars, I. (See, on an inscription raised by the freedmen in honour of the dictator, and which has been discovered in Italy, Mommsen, Inscriptiones Latinæ Antiquissimæ, p. 168.)
[730] Titus Livius, Epitome, LXXXIX.
[731] Appian, Civil Wars, I. 100.
[732] Appian, Civil Wars, I. 100.—In 574, the age required for the different magistracies had already been fixed. (Titus Livius, XL. 44.)
[733] Appian, Civil Wars, I. 101.—Titus Livius, Epitome, LXXXIX.
[734] Aulus Gellius, II. 24.
[735] Cicero, Familiar Letters, III. 6, 8, 10.
[736] Titus Livius, Epitome, LXXXIX.—Tacitus, Annals, XI. 22.—Aurelius Victor, Illustrious Men, lxxv.