This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xii the comitia tributa and the rise of popular sovereignty To The Year 449 in the belief of the Romans the tribunes of the plebs, originally two, were instituted in 494 as a concession to the seceding commons to win them back to the state The historical truth of the first secession need not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xii the comitia tributa and the rise of popular sovereignty To The Year 449 in the belief of the Romans the tribunes of the plebs, originally two, were instituted in 494 as a concession to the seceding commons to win them back to the state The historical truth of the first secession need not be discussed here,"but there is no good ground for rejecting the view of the ancients either that the tribunate of the plebs owed its existence to a revolution or that it began at as early a date. Recording to our sources the plebeian tribunes, hence we may infer also the aediles, were for a time elected, and other business affecting the interests of the common people was transacted in comitia curiata composed potentially of all the citizens.he change in the form of organization in 471, from curiate to tribal, will be considered below The president of the comitia which 1 Livy ii. 33. 1; Calpurnius Piso, in ibid. 3; 58. 1; Dion. Hal. vi. 89. 1; cf. Cic. Rep. ii. 33. 58; Mommsen, Rom. Staatsr. ii. 274 f. with notes. Meyer, in Rhein. Mus. xxxvii (1882). 616 (., suggests a doubt as to whether they were instituted at that time. Niese, De annalibus Romanis observationes (1886), and Meyer, in Hermes, xxx (1895), 1-24, nave triel to prove that they were not instituted till 471 and that their original number was four. Niese's view is controverted by Joh. Schmidt, in Hermes, xxi (1886). 464-6. Pais, Anc. Italy, 260, 275, 'assumes that they came into existence as a result of the abolition of the decemvirate. 2 Cic. Frag. A. vii. 48: "Tanta igitur in illis virtus fuit, ut anno xvi post reges exactos propter nimiam dominationem potentium secederent... duos tribunos crear
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