Note 356 — Chapter XII · - THE ROMAN CURIA, TRIBE AND POPULUS.

Mr. Leonhard Schmitz, one of the ablest defenders of the theory of kingly government among the Greeks and Romans, with great candor remarks: “It is very difficult to determine the extent of the king’s powers, as the ancient writers naturally judged of the kingly period by their own republican constitution, and frequently assigned to the king, the senate, and the comitia of the curia the respective powers and functions which were only true in reference to the consuls, the senate and the comitia of their own time.”—Smith’s Dic. Gk. & Rom. Antiq., Art. Rex.