Footnotes
[15]
The magistrates there were annual, and the senators for life.
[16]
Lycurgus, says Xenophon, De Repub. Lacedœm., 10.1, 2,
ordained that the senators should be chosen from amongst the old men, to
the end that they might not be neglected in the decline of life; thus by
making them judges of the courage of young people, he rendered the old
age of the former more honourable than the strength and vigour of the
latter.
[17]
Even the Areopagus itself was subject to their censure.
[18]
De Repub. Lacedæm., 8.
[19]
We may see in the Roman History how useful this power was to the
republic. I shall give an instance even in the time of its greatest
corruption. Aulus Fulvius was set out on his journey in order to join
Catiline; his father called him back, and put him to death. — Sallust,
De Bello Catil., xxxiv.
