Footnotes
[47]
In the year of Rome 444, Livy, dec. 1, Book ix. As the war
against Perseus appeared somewhat dangerous, it was ordained by a
senatus-consultum that this law should be suspended, and the people
agreed to it. Livy, dec. 5, Book ii.
[48]
"They extorted it from the senate," says Freinshemius, dec. 2, Book
tit. i, De Sicariis et homicidiis.
[[65]]
This took place, especially in regard to crimes committed in
Italy, which were subject chiefly to the inspection of the senate. See
Livy, Dec. 1, Book ix, p. 26, concerning the conspiracies at Capua.
[[66]]
This was the case in the prosecution for the murder of
Posthumius, in the year 340 of Rome. See Livy, Book iv, p. 50.
[[67]]
This judgment was passed in the year of Rome 567.
[[69]]
Cicero, in "Brutus."
[[70]]
This is proved from Livy, Book xliii, p. 46, who says that Hannibal
rendered their magistracy annual.
[[71]]
The senatus-consultums were in force for the space of a year,
though not confirmed by the people. — Dionysius Halicarnassus Book ix, p.
595; Book xi, p. 735.
[[73]]
Capite censos plerosque. — Sallust, "De Bello Jugurth," p. 84.
[[74]]
Fragment of this author, xxxvi, in the collection of Constantine
Porphyrogenitus, "Of Virtues and Vices" [Historica].
[[75]]
Fragment of his history, taken from the extract "Of Virtues and
Vices" [Historica].
[[76]]
Fragment of the book xxxiv in the extract "Of Virtues and Vices"
[Historica].
[[77]]
"Penes quos Romæ tum judicia erant, atque ex equestri ordine
solerent sortito judices eligi in causa Prætorum et Proconsulum, quibus
post administratam provinciam dies dicta erat."