Footnotes
[20]
Romulus instituted this tribunal, as appears from Dionysius
Halicarnassus, ii, p. 96.
[21]
See in Livy, xxxix, the use that was made of this tribunal at
the time of the conspiracy of the Bacchanalians (they gave the name of
conspiracy against the republic to assemblies in which the morals of
women and young people were debauched.)
[22]
It appears from Dionysius Halicarnassus, ii, that Romulus's
institution was that in ordinary cases the husband should sit as judge
in the presence of the wife's relatives, but that in heinous crimes he
should determine in conjunction with five of them. Hence Ulpian, tit. 6,
9, 12, 13, distinguishes in respect to the different judgments of
manners between those which he calls important, and those which are less
so: mores, graviores, leviores.
