Event.—Credibility of Early Roman History, vol. i. p. 101.
Libri lintei.—Registers written on linen, mentioned by Livy, under the year 444 B.C.
Nail.—Livy quotes Cincius for the fact that a series of nails were extant in the temple of Hostia, at Volsinii, as a register of successive years. Quite as primitive an arrangement as the North American quipus.