Note 314 — Chapter I · THE EARLIEST CONSTITUTION OF ROME (continued 2)
Reading edition
Cic. de Rep. ii. 30, 52; Liv. ii. 1; App. B.C. ii. 119. It is sometimes represented as a law which made any one who aimed at royalty sacer (Liv. ii. 8). For the dual sanction of the oath and the law compare the means by which the sacrosanctitas of the tribunes was secured (p. 100).