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

by George Willis Botsford

[210] Röm. Staatsr. iii. 13.

[211] Rep. ii. 20. 35: “Duplicavit illum pristinum patrum numerum et antiquos patres maiorum gentium appellavit, quos priores sententiam rogabat, a se adscitos minorum.” The connection shows that Cicero is speaking of two classes of senators distinguished by the rank of the gentes from which they respectively came.

[212] P. 28 f.

[213] P. 11 f.

[214] Röm. Staatsr. iii. 14.

[215] P. 17 f. and notes.

[216] P. 20 f.

[217] For the sources, see Schwegler, Röm. Gesch. i. 459 f.; Stengel, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. ii. 1885.

[218] Andeutungen über den urspr. Religionsunterschied der röm. Patr. und Pleb. 1 f.

[219] Cf. Livy xxxv. 51. 2; Serv. in Aen. ii. 761. Schwegler, ibid. 464-8, who insists on this fact, shows clearly that no historical value attaches to the myth; see also Pais, Storia di Roma, I. i. 218, n. 1.