[1349] P. 211, 467, 469.
[1350] P. 201, n. 2.
[1351] The idea that Servius Tullius gave this assembly the right to elect kings (Dion. Hal. v. 12. 3; Lange, Röm. Alt. i. 458; ii. 531) is proved wrong by the circumstance that the organization attributed to him was purely military, from which the comitia centuriata slowly developed; p. 203 ff.
[1352] Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 531. On the number of praetors, see Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. ii. 202. The election of a centurion to the function of dedicating a temple (Livy ii. 27. 6) in the period before the first secession Lange (ibid. i. 917; ii. 532) with good reason considers a myth. It is doubtful, however, whether he is right in viewing as historical the so-called lex Valeria de candidatis, assigned to the first year of the republic (Plut. Popl. 11; Lange, ibid. ii. 532), which ordered the presiding magistrate to accept as candidates all qualified patricians who offered themselves for the consulship—a principle said to have been afterward applied to other patrician offices.
[1353] P. 331.
[1354] Cic. Brut. 14. 55; cf. Lange, Röm. Alt. i. 409; ii. 115, 532.
[1355] On the centuriate elective function in general, see Lange, ibid. ii. 531-3. Willems, Sén. Röm. ii. 69 ff., contends unconvincingly that the Maenian statute should be assigned to 338.
[1356] P. 177.
[1357] P. 181 f.
[1358] P. 177.