The Roman assemblies from their origin to the end of the Republic

by George Willis Botsford

Zeitschr. f. gesch. Rechtswiss. = Zeitschrift für geschichtliche Rechtswissenschaft. Berlin.

Zeitschr. d. Savignyst. = Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Römische Abteilung. Weimar.

Zöller, Latium und Rom. Leipzig, 1878.

Zumpt, C. T. De legibus iudiciisque repetundarum. Abhdl. d. Akad. d. Wiss. zu Berlin. 1845. 1-70, 475-515.

FOOTNOTES

[1] Cf. Mommsen, Röm. Forsch. i. 168 and n. 1. Schrader, Reallex. 920 f., accepts this explanation as most probable, and connecting it with Skt. cakrá-, interprets it as referring to a wheel formation of the army. But Vaniček, Griech.-lat. etym. Wörterb. 1085 f., connects populari with spol-iu-m.

[2] Curtius, Griech. Etym. 260, English, 344; Corssen, Ausspr. i. 368, 422; Vaniček, Etym. Wörterb. d. lat. Spr. 90; Griech.-lat. etym. Wörterb. 506; Walde, Lat. etym. Wörterb. 480 f.; cf. Schrader, ibid.; Genz, Patr. Rom., 51 f.

[3] This interpretation would explain magister populi and populari. Plebs, on the other hand, denoted the multitude as distinguished from the leaders; hence it differed from populus, notwithstanding Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 98, n. 2.

[4] Cf. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 3.