[1048] Cic. Rep. ii. 10. 17; Livy i. 16.
[1049] On the legislation of the kings, see Voigt, in Abhdl. d. sächs. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. vii (1879). 555 ff.
[1050] Livy ii. 1. 1.
[1051] Cf. Cic. Rep. i. 2. 2. To the end of the republic resort was had in national crises to the numen deorum as the ultimate source of law; Cic. Phil. xi. 12. 28.
[1052] Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. ii. 11.
[1053] Mommsen, ibid. iii. 313; cf. Jenks, History of Politics, 89 f.
[1054] In the preceding chapter (p. 153, 157) an attempt is made to determine under what influence the curiate organization and the systematic vote were introduced into the assembly.
[1055] Cf. Gell. v. 19. 9: “Velitis, iubeatis, uti.... Haec ita, uti dixi, ita vos, quirites, rogo.” This reference to an arrogation is quoted here merely for the sake of the formula. For further citations, see Mommsen, ibid. iii. 312, n. 2.
[1056] For ut rogas, see Livy vi. 38. 5; x. 8. 12. Antiquo for “no” may be inferred from the use of antiquare to designate the rejection of a proposal; e.g. Livy iv. 58. 14; cf. Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 1108, n. 4; p. 467 below.
[1057] Lex may be related to lēgare, ligare, “to bind”; Brugmann, Grundriss, I. i. 134; Corssen, Aussprache, i. 444; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 112, n. 1; Lange, Röm. Alt. 1. 315 (“bindende Vorschrift”). Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 308, n. 4, quotes J. Schmidt for the fundamental meaning of the root leg, “to place in order,” connecting it with English “law” (cf. θεσμός, Gesetz); cf. Kretschmer, Einleitung in die Geschichte der griech. Sprache, 165; Schrader, Reallexikon, 657; Christ, in Sitzb. d. bayer. Akad. d. Wiss. 1906. 215.