[918] Cic. Dom. 13. 34.
[919] Gell. v. 19. 6.
[920] Gaius i. 99.
[921] Gell. v. 19. 6; cf. the leaden tessera showing on the face a man taking another by the hand and the word Adoptio beneath; on the back are three officials seated, doubtless pontiffs, with the word Collegium beneath; Helbig, in Compt. rend. d. l’acad. d. inscr. et bell.-let. xxi (1893). 350-3. It evidently illustrates the preliminary stage of an adrogatio; see also Tac. Hist. i. 15.
[922] Gell. v. 19. 5 f.: “Adrogationes non temere neque inexplorata committuntur; nam comitia arbitris pontificibus praebentur, quae curiata appellantur”; Tac. Hist. i. 15: “Si te privatus lege curiata apud pontifices, ut moris est, adoptarem.” Rubino, Röm. Verf. 253, supposes that these comitia were under a civil magistrate; but the expressions “arbitris pontificibus” and “apud pontifices” prove pontifical management. Caesar, who passed the curiate law for the arrogation of Clodius, was supreme pontiff as well as consul.
[923] Gell. v. 19. 9.
[924] Gell. v. 19. 8; Tac. Hist. i. 15; Cic. Dom. 15. 39; Att. ii. 12. 2; Dio Cass. xxxvii. 51. 1 f. Mommsen, Röm. Forsch. i. 126, 270, supposed that the curiae simply witnessed the transaction, without giving their vote; but afterward (Röm. Staatsr. iii. 38) he changed his mind.
[925] Gell. xv. 27. 3.
[926] This seems to be the meaning of Serv. in Aen. ii. 156: “Consuetudo apud antiquos fuit, ut qui in familiam vel gentem transiret, prius se abdicaret ab ea in qua fuerat et sic ab alia acciperetur.”
[927] Gell. v. 19. 8, 10.