Note 1108 — Chapter V · CONSULSHIP OF CÆSAR AND BIBULUS. (695.)

Epistles to Atticus, I. 18.—In allusion to a former law, we read as follows: “The senators who have discussed the present law shall be held, within ten days following the plebiscitum, to swear to maintain it before the questor, in the treasury, in open day, and taking for witnesses Jupiter and the gods Penates.” (Table of Bantia, Klenze, Philologische Abhandlungen, IV. 16-24.)