[1255] Lange, Röm. Alt. i. 563. His citations, however (Fest. 177. 27; Cic. Orat. ii. 64. 260), do not prove the point; Herzog, ibid.
[1256] Dion. Hal. iv. 21. 1; x. 17.
[1257] Livy i. 43. 11; Dion. Hal. iv. 20. 3-5; vii. 59. 3-8; x. 17. 3. On the prerogative equestrian centuries, see Livy i. 43. 8; v. 18. 1: “Praerogativa ... creant” (corrupt text); x. 22. 1: “Praerogativae et primo vocatae centuriae ... dicebant”; Fest. 249. 7.
[1258] Cic. Planc. 20. 49; Q. Fr. ii. 14. 4; Div. i. 45. 103; Fest. ibid.
[1259] Ch. iv.
[1260] P. 64, 86 f.
[1261] P. 86 f.
[1262] V. 18. 1 f.; “P. Licinium Calvum praerogativa tribunum militum non petentem creant ... omnesque deinceps ex collegio eiusdem anni refici apparebat.... Qui priusquam renuntiarentur iure vocatis tribubus.... Calvus ita verba fecit.” We might amend this evidently corrupt passage either by changing praerogativa to the plural, as do Müller (2d ed. 1888) and Weissenborn (8th ed. 1885), thus making it refer to the equestrian centuriae. At the same time we might read iis revocatis (scil. praerogativis). The passage would then apply to the Servian arrangement. Or we could bring it to the support of the reformed order by reading creat (cf. Madvig). The preferable interpretation of the qui priusquam ... tribubus clause seems to be “Before they could be declared elected on the official reports from the tribes,” the official reports being counted tribe by tribe, as will hereafter appear; p. 225. See also on this passage, Plüss, Centurienverf. 10 ff.; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 496. Here, as often elsewhere, Ullrich, Centuriatcom. 14, is wrong. But it is impossible to prove or to disprove anything by the emendation of such a passage.
[1263] VI. 21. 5: “Omnes tribus bellum iusserunt.” As the tribal assembly did not declare war, this passage must refer to the reformed comitia (Lange, ibid.; Plüss, ibid. 13), unless omnes tribus is carelessly used to designate the unanimous vote of the populus Romanus. The assembly tributim mentioned by Livy vii. 16. 7 for the year 357 was tribal, not centuriate as Ullrich, ibid. 15, supposes.
[1264] In fact some scholars have assigned the reform to the decemvirs, 451; cf. Peter, Epoch. d. Verfassungsgesch. 75; Soltau, Altröm. Volksversamml. 361 ff.