[1097] P. 435.
[1098] It is not probable that an official could pass the law for a colleague, the intention being that each higher magistrate should personally propose and carry it for himself; cf. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. i. 610, n. 2.
[1099] Leg. Agr. ii. 10. 26: “Hoc inauditum et plane novum, ut ei curiata lege magistratus detur, cui nullis comitiis ante sit datus.”
[1100] In Gell. xiii. 15. 4: “Magistratus ... iustus curiata datur lege.”
[1101] In Cic. Leg. Agr. ii. 11. 29: “Tum ii decemviri, inquit, eodem iure sint, quo qui optuma lege.” In keeping with this statement is the object of the curiate act as given by the Servilian rogation (p. 183, n. 5).
[1102] Plaut. Most. 713; Cic. Off. i. 31. 111; 42. 151; Fin. iv. 12. 31; Rep. iii. 17. 27; Cat. i. 9. 21; Sest. 43. 94; Planc. 36. 88; Marc. 1. 4; Fam. iii. 8. 6; Att. xv. 3. 2.
[1103] Gaius ii. 197: “Proinde utile sit legatum atque si optimo iure relictum esset; optimum ius est per damnationem legati.” It is clear that this statement refers merely to the form.
[1104] Fabius Pictor, in Gell. i. 12. 14: “Uti quae optima lege fuit, ita te, Amata, capio.”
[1105] Cic. Phil. xi. 12. 30: “Senatui placere C. Cassium pro consule provinciam optinere, ut qui optimo iure eam provinciam optinuerit” (with all the formality usual in cases of appointment to that province); v. 16. 44: “Sit (Caesar) pro praetore eo iure quo qui optimo.”
[1106] Cic. Har. Resp. 7. 14 (reference is to the complete and perfect title with which Cicero holds his dwelling); Phil. ix. 7. 17 (a burial place granted by the state to a family with a perfect title); Lex Agr. (CIL. 200) 27: “Is ager locus domneis privatus ita, utei quoi optuma lege privatus est, esto.”