[1126] Ibid.
[1127] Such an article in favor of the decemviri agris adsignandis appeared in the Servilian agrarian rogation of 63; Cic. Leg. Agr. ii. 11. 29; cf. p. 186.
[1128] According to Dion. Hal. ii. 5 f., those who are entering upon an office pass the night in tents and in the morning under the open sky take the auspices. Livy, xxi. 63. 10, states that the consul dons his official robe in his own house, but neither he nor any other authority intimates that the public auspices were taken in his private house, as Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. i. 616, asserts.
[1129] Livy ix. 39. 1.
[1130] Ibid. xxi. 63. 9; Varro, in Gell. xiv. 7. 9.
[1131] Rubino, Röm. Verf. 365 ff.
[1132] Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. i. 612, n. 1.
[1133] Sall. Cat. 29: “Ea potestas per senatum more Romano magistratui maxuma permittitur, exercitum parare, bellum gerere, coercere omnibus modis socios atque cives, domi militiaeque imperium atque iudicium summum habere; aliter sine populi iussu nullius earum rerum consuli ius est;” Hist. i. 77. 22: (The senate decreed) “uti Appius Claudius cum Q. Catulo pro consule et ceteris quibus imperium est, urbi praesidio sint operamque dent, ne quid respublica detrimenti capiat.” The interpretation which includes the interrex, Appius Claudius, with those who possessed the imperium is confirmed by Livy i. 17. 5 f., who informs us that the imperium of an interrex lasted five days.
[1134] Livy ix. 38 f.
[1135] Cf. Nissen, Beitr. z. röm. Staatsr. 51 f.