Note 963 — Chapter XVIII · THE SUCCESSION TO THE KINGDOM IN ANCIENT LATIUM
Reading edition
Th. Mommsen, Römisches Staatsrecht, ii. 3rd Ed., 6-8; A. H. J. Greenidge, Roman Public Life, pp. 45 sqq. Mr. Greenidge thinks that the king was regularly nominated by his predecessor and only occasionally by an interim king. Mommsen holds that he was always nominated by the latter.