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

by George Willis Botsford

[898] P. 139.

[899] Schrader, Reallex. 221, 864; Leist, Alt-arisch. Jus Gent. 419; Alt-arisch. Jus Civ. ii. 171; Fustel de Coulanges, Ancient City, 104.

[900] Tac. Germ. 20. 5. The oldest Frankish laws make no mention of testaments; Schrader, ibid. 865.

[901] Demosth. xx. 102; Plut. Sol. 21; Telfy, in CJA. 1399-1412, with comment, p. 613 ff.

[902] Plut. Agis, 5; cf. Thumser, Griech. Staatsalt. 259.

[903] Bücheler und Zitelmann, Recht von Gortyn, 134.

[904] Aristot. Polit. 1309, a 24; cf. Thalheim, Griech. Rechtsalt. 61.

[905] Fustel de Coulanges, Anc. City, 105; Leist, Alt-arisch. Jus Civ. ii. 171.

[906] Schrader, Sprachv. und Urgesch. ii.³ (1907). 374 f.

[907] This view is held by Schrader, ibid. 865; Ihering, Geist des röm. Rechts, i. 145 ff.; Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. ii. 37 f.; iii. 318 ff.; Kappeyne van de Coppello, Comitien, 67; Poste, Gai Inst. 178; Hallays, Comices, 18; and with some hesitation by Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 110, 118, 1063.