[82] Livy i. 43. 10: “Viritim suffragium ... omnibus datum est” (i.e. in the curiate assembly). This statement of the lack of relation between the gens and the curia is repeated from Pol. Sci. Quart. xxi. 511 f.
[83] It is in the main a reproduction of my article on the subject in Pol. Sci. Quart. xxi (1906). 498-526.
[84] P. 25 ff.
[85] Rep. ii. 8. 14; 12. 23: “Senatus, qui constabat ex optimatibus, quibus ipse rex tantum tribuisset, ut eos patres vellet nominari patriciosque eorum liberos.”
[86] In the expression “omnibus patriciis, omnibus antiquissimis civibus,” Cicero (Caec. 35. 101) intends no more than to include the patricians among the oldest citizens, whom he is contrasting with the newly-admitted municipes. Only the most superficial examination of the passage (cf. Willems, Sén. Rom. i. 7) could make “omnibus patriciis” equivalent to “omnibus antiquissimis civibus.”
[87] I. 8. 7.
[88] Ibid.: “Consilium deinde viribus parat: centum creat senatores.”
[89] Livy iv. 4. 7: “Nobilitatem istam vestram quam plerique oriundi ex Albanis et Sabinis non genere nec sanguine sed per coöptationem in patres habetis, aut ab regibus lecti aut post reges exactos iussu populi.”
[90] Livy i. 34. 6: “In novo populo, ubi omnis repentina atque ex virtute nobilitas sit.”
[91] II. 8. 1-3. In 12. 1, he shifts his point of view: Romulus chose the hundred original senators from the patricians.