[92] Rom. 13; cf. Q. R. 58.
[93] Cf. further Ovid, Fast. iii. 127; Vell. i. 8. 6; Fest. 246. 23; 339. 11.
[94] There is no inconsistency, however, in the fact that some noble gentes claimed descent from Aeneas or from deities (cf. Seeley, Livy, 57) or from Alban or Sabine ancestors (cf. Livy i. 30. 2; iv. 4. 7; Dion. Hal. ii. 46. 3; iii. 29. 7); they were nobles in their original homes before the founding of Rome, but became patricians by an act only of the Roman government.
Although after the creation of the first hundred patres, the ancients do not distinctly state that each newly-made senator was the founder of a new patrician family, they do represent the enlargement of the senate and of the patriciate as going hand in hand; in this way they continue to make the patriciate depend upon membership in the senate; cf. Livy i. 30. 2; 35. 6; Dion. Hal. ii. 47. 1; iii. 67. 1; Madvig, Röm. Staat. i. 75.
[95] Rep., ii. 8. 14; cf. (Aurel. Vict.) Vir. Ill. ii. 11.
[96] Cat. 6. 6; cf. Isid. Etym. ix. 6. 10: “Nam sicut patres suos, ita illi rem publicam habebant” (or “alebant”).
[97] I. 8. 7.
[98] 339. 11.
[99] 247.
[100] ii. 8. 1.