[1323] P. 220.
[1324] P. 217.
[1325] P. 216, n. 3. Soltau’s modifications, Jahrb. f. Philol. xli (1895). 410-4, of Mommsen’s hypothesis are no improvement on the original.
[1326] Röm. Alt. ii. 510 ff.
[1327] In this way the prerogative century, after serving as an omen (Cic. Mur. 18. 39), would be joined with four others of the same half-tribe.
[1328] Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 526.
[1329] Livy xliii. 16. 14 (171 B.C.): “Cum ex duodecim centuriis equitum octo censorem condemnassent multaeque aliae primae classis, extemplo principes civitatis ... vestem mutarunt.” This proves that the votes were made public early in the course of the voting, though not necessarily before the second class began; cf. Cic. Phil. ii. 33. 82. Lange too hastily rejects the evidence of these two passages. The vote of each century was announced separately; Varro, L. L. vii. 42: “Quod ... comitiis cum recitatur a praecone dicitur olla centuria,” which would not be true, if, as Lange supposes, the announcement was by tribal groups of five.
[1330] Cf. Gerathewohl, Reit. und Rittercent. 90, n. 2.
[1331] As authority for the six votes of the eighteen equestrian centuries Lange cites Cic. Rep. ii. 22. 39: “Equitum centuriae cum sex suffrages”; Phil. ii. 33. 82; “Prima classis vocatur, renuntiatur; deinde, ita ut adsolet, suffragia.” So far as these two passages are concerned, Lange could be right; but his view is contradicted by Festus 334. 29 (“Sex suffragia appellantur in equitum centuriis, quae sunt adiecta—MS. adfectae—ei numero centuriarum, quas Priscus Tarquinius rex constituit”), which distinguishes the sex suffragia from the remaining centuries of cavalry, and by Livy xliii. 16. 14, which gives each century a vote.
[1332] All the tribes voted; Livy vi. 21. 5 (a historical anticipation but useful for showing later custom); viii. 37. 12; xxix. 37. 13 f.; ep. xlix; Val. Max. ix. 10. 1. All the centuries voted; Livy xxiv. 9. 3; xxvi. 18. 9; 22. 13; xxvii. 21. 4; xxviii. 38. 6; xxix. 22. 5; xxxi. 6. 3; Cic. Sull. 32. 91; Pis. 1. 2; Imp. Pomp. 1. 2.