[1038] P. 1 f., 173. The formula is extremely ancient in origin, but it must have undergone modifications in time, as is indicated by the word prisci applied to the Latins. Possibly the reference to the populus should be similarly explained.
[1039] P. 174.
[1040] Cf. Livy i. 22; 30. 3; 35. 7; 38. 4.
[1041] P. 230.
[1042] P. 171.
[1043] For the Indo-Europeans, see Schrader, Reallexikon, 655 ff.; Maine, Ancient Law, xv f., 2 ff.; Hirt, Indogermanen, ii. 522 ff. There may have been occasional legislation by the assembly in its earliest history; cf. the prohibition of the importation of wine by the Suevi (Caesar, B. G. iv. 2), which may have been an act of the kind.
[1044] Il. i. 238; ix. 98; Od. vi. 12.
[1045] Cic. Rep. v. 2. 3; Livy i. 19. 1.
[1046] Livy i. 19. 5; cf. 42. 4; Tac. Ann. iii. 26.
[1047] Livy i. 8. 1; Verg. Aen. i. 292 f.