[1265] P. 77 f., 214.
[1266] X. 22. 1: “Eumque et praerogativae et primo vocatae omnes centuriae.” Praerogativae refers to the equestrian centuriae and hence to the Servian organization. It is hazardous, however, to make so much depend on a single letter; should final e be dropped from this adjective, the sentence would still read correctly.
[1267] P. 57 f., 66 f., 86 f.
[1268] I. 43. 12.
[1269] Cf. xxiv. 7. 12 (215 B.C.): “Eo die cum sors praerogativae Aniensi iuniorum exisset”; 9. 3: “Praerogativae suffragium iniit ... eosdem consules ceterae centuriae ... dixerunt”; xxvi. 22. 2 f.; xxvii. 6. 3.
[1270] Livy xl. 51 is evidence that the censors had power to make changes as extensive as these.
[1271] Mommsen, Röm. Trib. 108, preferred Fabius, and his view has been accepted by Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 499; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 326; Kübler, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. iii. 1956; Le Tellier, Organ. cent. 75; Willems, Droit public Röm. 93; Karlowa, Röm. Rechtsgesch. i. 384; and others. But in his Staatsr. iii. 254, n. 4, 270, n. 3, following Göttling, Gesch. d. röm. Staatsverf. 383, he changes his preference to Flaminius on the ground that the conflict between the patricians and the plebeians continued to the war with Hannibal (Sall. Hist. i. 9. 11), ending, as he supposes, in the opening of the six patrician centuries of knights to the plebeians—a change which he connects with the reform under discussion. His reasoning as to the date is not cogent, and is outweighed by the consideration given in the text.
[1272] II. 21.
[1273] XXI. 63; cf. Kübler, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. iii. 1956.
[1274] Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 499; Plüss, Centurienverf. 10; Le Tellier, Organ. cent. 73 ff.