Note 1190 — Chapter VIII · Rome
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Livy IV. 13–16; so Dion. Hal. XII. 1. 1, “most potent in wealth, having recently inherited his father’s estate” (whence Mommsen, Roem. Forsch. II. p. 211, describes him as “according to Dionysius a rich merchant’s son”); Florus, Epit. I. 17. 26, “Spurium largitione suspectum regiae dominationis praesenti morte (populus) multauit.” Maelius is repeatedly said to have aimed at the kingship, so Cic. de Rep. II. 27 (50), de Senect. 16 (56), de Amic. 11 (36), Phil. II. 11, 34, 44 (26 and 27, 87, 114) (cp. also in Cat. I. 1. 3); Varro, L.L. V. 157; Val. Max. VI. 3. 1 (Rom.); Diod. XII. 37 (ἐπιθέμενος τυραννίδι); Dion. Hal. XII. 1 (ἐπιθέσει τυραννίδος); Plut. Brut. I.