Note 267 — Chapter I · THE EARLIEST CONSTITUTION OF ROME (continued 2)
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The change, however, was not supposed (except perhaps by Tacitus Ann. iii. 26, see p. 58) to rest on a rogatio. Mommsen (Staatsr. iii. p. 161) explains this tradition by noting that the alteration was a mere administrative act, which would fall within the competence of the king.