[1155] Dio Cass. xxxix. 19. 3. The date of the trial was Feb. 7, 56; Cic. Q. Fr. ii. 3. 2.
[1156] Lex Cornelia de XX Quaest. in CIL. i. 202; Cic. Verr. i. 10. 30; Schol. Gronov. 395. Mark Antony when quaestor performed the functions of his office through the year without the sanctioning law; Cic. Phil. ii. 20. 50.
[1157] It is always spoken of in the singular, the implication being that one act served for all; cf. especially Caesar, B. C. i. 6; Livy ix. 38. 15; Dio Cass. xxxix. 19. 3.
[1158] Cic. Frag. A. vii. 48: “Itaque auspicato ... tr. pl. comitiis curiatis creati sunt”; Dion. Hal. vi. 89. 1; ix. 41. 2; cf. Livy ii. 56. 2; p. 262 below.
[1159] V. 46. 10.
[1160] Röm. Verf. 381 and n. 2.
[1161] Based on his reading of Fest. 351. 34: “(Triginta lictoribus l)ex curiata fertur; quod Hanni(bal in propinquitate) Romae cum esset, nec ex praesidi(is discedere liceret), Q. Fabius Maximus Verru(cosus egit per tr. pl. et Ma)rcellus cos. facere in(stituit.”...).
[1162] The attendance on the comitia tributa was sometimes as low as five to the tribe; Cic. Sest. 51. 109.
[1163] Cic. Leg. Agr. ii. 7. 16 f.; in connection with the preceding note and p. 127.
[1164] Mommsen’s restoration is, “(Transit imperium nec denuo l)ex curiata fertur, quod Hanni(bal in vicinitate) Romae cum esset nec ex praesidi(is tuto decedi posset), Q. Fabius Maximus Verru(cossus M. Claudius Ma)rcellus cos. facere in(stituerunt)”; Röm. Forsch, ii. 412; Röm. Staatsr. i. 613, n. 3. Bergk, Rhein. Mus. N. F. xix (1864). 606, with less success proposes translatione imperii; cf. also Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 679. The passage is in fact past healing, though Mommsen’s reconstruction is an improvement on Rubino’s.