Note 6 — BOOK X
Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation
This seems to be the distinction between the words γερουσία and σύγκλητος. Cp. 36, 4. The latter is the word used by Polybius for the Roman Senate: for the nature of the first see Bosworth Smith, Carthage and the Carthaginians, p. 27. It was usually called “The Hundred.” Mommsen (Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. p. 15) seems to doubt the existence of the larger council: its authority at any rate had been superseded by the oligarchical gerusia.