“The quarrels and struggles between the two parties ended in the second Punic war.” (Sallust, Fragments, I. vii.)
540
“Four tribes referred it to the Senate to grant the right of suffrage to Formiæ, Fundi, and Arpinum; but they were told in reply that to the people alone belonged the right of suffrage.” (Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 36.)
541
“The annual change of generals was disastrous to the Romans. They recalled all those who had experience in war, as though they had been sent not to fight, but only to practice.” (Zonaras, Annales, VIII. 16.)
542
Titus Livius, XXII. 29.
543
Titus Livius, XXVII. 5, 7.
544
Titus Livius, XXXII. 28.
545
Titus Livius, XXXI. 4, 49.
546
Titus Livius, XXIV. 49. – Polybius, III. 75.
547
Zonaras, Annales, VIII. 16.
548
Titus Livius, XXXIX. 3.
549
Plutarch, Marcellus, 28.
550
Titus Livius, XXIII. 30.
551
Titus Livius, XXXIV. 54.
552
“Et equites Romanos milites et negociatores.” (Sallust, Jugurtha, 65.)
553
“In 342, a senator and two knights were charged, during a famine, with the provisioning of Rome.” (Titus Livius, IV. 3.)
554
Seminarium senatus. (Titus Livius, XLII. 61.)
555
Titus Livius, XXIII. 49. – Valerius Maximus, V. vi. 8.
556
Titus Livius, XXI. 63; XXV. 3.
557
Valerius Maximus, IV. viii. 2.
558
Valerius Maximus, IV. v. 1.
559
They had no deliberative voice, because, according to the public Roman law, no acting magistrate could vote. (See Mommsen, i. 187.)
560
“Now you have still the comitia by centuries, and the comitia by tribes. As for the comitia by curiæ, they are observed only for the auspices.” (Cicero, Second Oration on the Agrarian Law, 9.)
561
The ancient mode of division by curiæ had lost all significance and ceased to be in use. (Ovid, Fasti, II. 1. 531.) So Cicero says, speaking of them: “The comitia, which are retained only for the sake of form, and because of the auspices, and which, represented by the thirty lictors, are but the appearance of what was before. Ad speciem atque usurpationem vetustatis.” (Oration on the Agrarian Law, II. 12.) – In the latter times of the Republic, the curiæ, in the election of the magistrates, had only the inauguration of the flamens, of the king of the sacrifices (rex sacrificulus), and probably the choice of the grand curion (curio maximus). (Titus Livius, XXVII. 8. – Dionysius of Halicarnassus, V. 1. – Aulus Gellius, XV. 27. – Titus Livius, XXVII. vi. 36.)
562
“Achaia alone had twelve hundred for her share.” (Titus Livius, XXXIV. 50.)
563
Titus Livius, XXXIII. 32.
564