[1398] Livy vii. 17. 12: “In Duodecim Tabulis legem esse, ut, quodcumque postremum populus iussisset, id ius ratumque esset; iussum populi et suffragia esse.” After the decemviral legislation an attempt was made to extend the principle to elections, as in the case here mentioned by Livy.
[1399] P. 274 ff.
[1400] P. 287.
[1401] Livy vii. 5. 9; Sall. Iug. 63; Cic. Cluent. 54. 148; Leg. iii. 3. 6; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 25, 604. It is only an inference that this important constitutional change was brought about by the centuries rather than by the tribes.
[1402] P. 299 f.
[1403] P. 233, 241 f.
[1404] P. 313.
[1405] Livy iv. 6. 8. A law is not mentioned but must be inferred; Lange, Röm. Alt. i. 650; ii. 603.
[1406] Livy ix. 34. 7: “Illi antiquae (legi), qua primum censores creati sunt”; cf. Lange, ibid. i. 664. In 433 a law, doubtless centuriate, of the dictator Mam. Aemilius cut down the term of the censors to eighteen months; Livy iv. 24. 5 f.; ix. 33. 6; ch. 34.
[1407] Livy iv. 43; Tac. Ann. xi. 22; cf. Lange, ibid. i. 666.