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Titi Livii Historiarum Romanarum Quĉ Supersunt Liber Secundus, Ed. by H. Belcher
Titi Livii Historiarum Romanarum Qu Supersunt Liber Secundus Ed by H Belcher Author:Titus Livius General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: ADDENDA TO THE NOTES 0.28.9. "Adsellas. The setta curulis, explained by Mommsen to be the currulis sella, or 'chariot seat,' from which the kings expounded and administered law." Sella curulis was formerly derived from curialis. Ciirulis, as from currulis, may be illustrated by mtilestus, from moles ; cf. Corssen, Ausprache, 2. 515. M. notes equicurules (Liv. xxiv. 18. 10), Juno curulis, tuo curru clupeoque tuere meos curiae vernulas sane (a formula in Servius, ALn. i. 17; cf. Conington on s£n. ii. 17), and the Monumentum Ancyranum, triumphus curulis; that is, ii/i ftp/icoTos. Festus, p. 49, calls curules, " quadrijugi equi." Cf. also Gavius Bassus, in Gellius, iii. 18. " Senatores in veterum aetate, qui curulem magistratum gess- issent; curru solitos honoris gratia in curiam vehi in quo curru sella esset super quam consederent quae ob eam causam curulis appellaretur; sed eos senatores qui magistratum curulem nondum ceperant pedibus itavisse (sic) in curiam ; propterea senatores nondum majoribus honoribus pedarios nominatos." A part of the above has been adopted by Lewis and Short in their edition of Andrews. The note is chiefly from Romisches Staatsrecht, by Theodor Mommsen, p. 313, note. c. 33. ii. "Sexlantibus=one-sixth of the As." The as mentioned is the as libralis. "Assis libralis desiit esse, A. u. c. 490." So Ritschl, in Mommsen, CorpusInscr. Latin. pars. prior. "Aes IInhi in formae quadrantae v pondo, nam unicum quod extat specimen integrum pendet pondo iv unciae xi librae antiquae Romanae." This coin was found at Velitrae, in the Volscian territory (cf. Liv. ii. 31. 4.), and was formerly ...« less