[1478] Livy ii. 41. 10.
[1479] Livy iii. 24. 3; 25. 2.
[1480] Pomponius, in Dig. i. 2. 2. 23: “Quia ... de capite civis Romani iniussu populi non erat lege permissum consulibus ius dicere, propterea quaestores constituebantur a populo, qui capitalibus rebus praeessent: his appellabantur quaestores parricidii, quorum etiam meminit lex Duodecim Tabularum”; cf. Fest. 258. 29; ep. 221.
[1481] Pliny N. H. xxxiv. 4. 13: “Camillo inter crimina obiecerit Sp. Carvilius quaestor, quod aerata ostia haberet in domo.” According to Livy v. 23. 11; 32. 8 f., it was misappropriation of the Veientan spoil. Diodorus, xiv. 117. 6, states that according to one report the accusation was that he had driven white horses in his triumph. The appeal was to the comitia centuriata; Cic. Dom. 32. 86. This case indicates either inconsistency in legal usage, quite possible in early time, or more probably the union of inconsistent traditions. The facts that Pliny mentions a quaestor apparently as prosecutor, not simply as witness (Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 582), and that Cicero represents the trial as belonging to the centuries suffice to indicate a questorian prosecution before that assembly. Should we venture to bring consistency to so uncertain a story, we could suppose that in his absence, the tribunes, taking up the case, lightened the penalty to a fine.
[1482] Varro, L. L. 90-92 (mutilated excerpts from the record of this trial, preserved in the Commentaria Quaestorum and containing part of the edict for summoning the assembly and the accused).
[1483] That is, after the increase in the number of praetors; Lange, Röm. Alt. i. 884; ii. 551; Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. ii. 543, n. 2.
[1484] P. 243, 248.
[1485] Cf. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. ii. 543 f.; Lange, Röm. Alt. i. 389, 884, 910; ii. 555.
[1486] P. 241.
[1487] Cf. Livy xxvi. 3. 9; xliii. 16. 11; Gell. vi. 9. 9; Karlowa, Röm. Rechtsgesch. i. 409.