Note 22 — Chapter I · THE EARLIEST CONSTITUTION OF ROME
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Zonaras vii. 15. P. Clodius first tried this method; when it was opposed he resorted to the artifice of adoption. Courtly writers imagined a transitio for the plebeian Octavii, Suet. Aug. 2 “Ea gens a Tarquinio Prisco rege inter minores gentes adlecta ... mox a Servio Tullio in patricias transducta, procedente tempore ad plebem se contulit.”