Note 190 — BOOK III (continued 2)
Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation
Polybius expresses the fact accurately, for, in the absence of a Consul to nominate a Dictator, Fabius was created by a plebiscitum; but the scruples of the lawyers were quieted by his having the title of prodictator only (Livy, 22, 8).