[338] The thirty curiones, as a body, were organized into a college of priests, one of their number holding the office of curio maximus. He was elected by the assembly of the gentes. Besides this was the college of augurs, consisting under the Ogulnian law (300 B. C.) of nine members, including their chief officer (magister collegii); and the college of pontiffs, composed under the same law of nine members, including the pontifex maximus.
[339] Livy, i, 8.
[340] Eo ex finitimis populis turba omnis sine discrimine, liber an servus esset, avida novarum rerum perfugit; idque primum ad coeptam magnitudinem roboris fuit.—Livy, i, 8.
[341] Vit. Romulus, cap. 20.
[342] Antiq. of Rome, ii, 15.
[343] Livy, i, 30.
[344] Ib., i, 33.
[345] Livy, i, 38.
[346] In the pueblo houses in New Mexico all the occupants of each house belonged to the same tribe, and in some cases a single joint-tenement house contained a tribe. In the pueblo of Mexico there were four principal quarters, as has been shown, each occupied by a lineage, probably a phratry; while the Tlatelulcos occupied a fifth district. At Tlascala there were also four quarters occupied by four lineages, probably phratries.
[347] History of Rome, i, 258.