[928] Appian, B. C. iii. 14. 49.
[929] Ibid. iii. 94. 389; Dio Cass. xlv. 5. 3.
[930] On the testamentary adoption, see further Leonhard, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. i. 420 f.
[931] Zon. vii. 15. 9.
[932] Cic. Dom. 14. 37; Scaur. 33; Ascon. 25.
[933] Mommsen, Röm. Forsch. i. 123 ff., has collected the cases.
[934] Suet. Aug. 2.
[935] Livy iv. 16. 3.
[936] Cic. Brut. 16. 62.
[937] Dio Cass. xxxvii. 51. 1: Τήν τε εὐγένειαν ἐξωμόσατο. The similarity of this oath to the detestatio sacrorum warrants the conclusion that it, too, was taken in the calata comitia. The abjuration of one’s rank, however, was not a detestatio sacrorum, for the reason given in n. 8 below.