Note 481 — Chapter II · THE GROWTH OF THE REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION
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Mr. Strachan-Davidson conjectures that the law of Publilius Philo “may have struck out the intervening consultation of the Senate, and may have required the consul to bring the petition of the Plebs at once before the Populus” (Smith Dict. of Antiq. s.v. plebiscitum, ii. p. 439).