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8. rebus divinis rite perpetratis vocataque ad concilium multitudine, quae coalescere in populi unius corpus nulla re praeterquam legibus poterat, iura dedit; quae ita sancta generi hominum agresti fore ratus si se ipse venerabilem insignibus imperii fecisset cum cetero habitu se augustiorem, tum maxime lictoribus duodecim sumptis fecit. [3] alii ab numero avium quae augurio regnum portenderant eum secutum numerum putant: me haud paenitet eorum sententiae esse quibus et apparitores hoc genus1 ab Etruscis finitimis, unde sella curulis, unde toga praetexta sumpta est, et numerum2 quoque ipsum ductum placet, et ita habuisse Etruscos, quod [p. 32] ex duodecim populis communiter creato rege3 singulos singuli populi lictores dederint.

[4] crescebat interim urbs munitionibus alia atque alia adpetendo loca, cum in spem magis futurae multitudinis quam ad id quod tum hominum erat munirent. [5] deinde, ne vana urbis magnitudo esset, adiciendae multitudinis causa vetere consilio condentium urbes, qui obscuram atque humilem conciendo ad se multitudinem natam e terra sibi prolem ementiebantur, locum qui nunc saeptus escendentibus4 inter duos lucos est, asylum aperit. [6] eo ex finitimis populis turba omnis, sine discrimine liber an servus esset, avida novarum rerum perfugit, idque primum ad coeptam magnitudinem roboris fuit. [7] cum iam virium haud paeniteret, consilium deinde viribus parat. centum creat senatores, sive quia is numerus satis erat, sive quia soli centum erant qui creari patres possent. patres certe ab honore, patriciique progenies eorum appellati.

1 hoc genus Gronov.: et hoc genus ω.

2 et numerumn Heumann: numerurm ω.

3 A.U.C. 1

4 escendentibus Edwards: descendentibus ω.

Livy. Books I and II With An English Translation. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919.

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