Note 49 — Chapter I · THE EARLIEST CONSTITUTION OF ROME
Reading edition
Liv. iv. 4 “nobilitatem vestram per cooptationem in patres habetis”; Suet. Tib. 1 “gens Claudia in patricios cooptata.” So Servius and Numa are said to have been transferred by the Populus from the ranks of the δῆμος to those of the πατρίκιοι.