Footnotes
[1]
Compare Aristotle, Politics, vi. 2.
[2]
Declamations, 17 and 18.
[3]
See the "Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decline
of the Romans," cap. 9.
[4]
pp. 691, 692, ed. Wechel, 1596.
[6]
Bk. iv, art. 15 et seq.
[7]
See in the "Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and
Decline of the Romans," 9, how this spirit of Servius Tullius was
preserved in the republic.
[8]
Dionysius Halicarnassus, "Eulogium of Isocrates," ii, p. 97, ed.
Wechel. Pollux, viii. 10, art. 130.
[9]
See Aristotle's Politics, ii. 12.
[11]
See the oration of Demosthenes, De Falsa legat., and the oration
against Timarchus.
[12]
They used even to draw two tickets for each place, one which
gave the place, and the other which named the person who was to succeed,
in case the first was rejected.
[14]
They were called leges tabulares; two tablets were presented to
each citizen, the first marked with an A, for Antiquo, or I forbid it;
and the other with an U and an R, for Uti rogas, or Be it as you desire.
[15]
At Athens the people used to lift up their hands.
[17]
The thirty tyrants at Athens ordered the suffrages of the
Areopagites to be public, in order to manage them as they pleased. --
Lysias, Orat. contra Agorat. 8.
[18]
See Dionysius Halicarnassus, iv, ix.
