Note 157 — Chapter II · PRIESTLY KINGS
Reading edition
J. Marquardt, Römische Staatsverwaltung, iii.² 321 sqq. Kings of the Sacred Rites are known from inscriptions to have existed at Lanuvium, Bovillae, and Tusculum. See Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, xiv., Nos. 2089, 2413, 2634. At Rome the Sacrificial King held office for life (Dionysius Halicarn. Antiquit. Rom. iv. 74. 4).