[998] Tac. Hist. iv. 64. Charlemagne suppressed the assemblies of the Saxons except for receiving communications from his missi and for the administration of justice; Cap. de Part. Sax. i. 70. 34 (Boretius 26. p. 68).
[999] Ginnell, Brehon Laws, 42.
[1000] Od. iii. 214 f.; xiv. 239; xvi. 75, 95 f., 114; xix. 527.
[1001] In Homeric Greece; Il. i. 231 f.; iii. 57. The Herulians killed their king merely because they were weary of royal government; Procopius, Bel. Goth. ii. 14, p. 422 A. Sometimes the Celtic commons massacred both magistrates and council, and took affairs into their own hands; Polyb. ii. 21; Caesar, B. G. iii. 17.
[1002] Hdt. vi. 56.
[1003] Rhetra of Polydorus and Theopompus, in Plut. Lyc. 6. This power is essentially the same as the auctoritas of the Roman patres.
[1004] Fustel de Coulanges, Monarchie Franque, 598 ff.
[1005] Ibid. 638 ff.
[1006] Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders, iii. 239 ff.
[1007] Kovalevsky, Mod. Cust. and Anc. Laws, 148.