Note 862 — Chapter IV · THE MAGISTRACY
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This is Mommsen’s interpretation (Staatsr. ii. p. 160 n. 4) of Liv. xxx. 39. C. Servilius Geminus had been appointed dictator comitiorum causa—“Saepe comitia indicta perfici tempestates prohibuerunt. Itaque, cum prid. Id. Mart. veteres magistratus abissent, novi subfecti non essent, respublica sine curulibus magistratibus erat.”