Note 206 — ROMAN PEOPLE (continued 3)
Reading edition
The annalists believed that the publication first took place in the year 304 b.c.: Livy ix. 46. Mommsen (Chronologie, p. 31) thought it possible that it had already been done by the Decemvirs in one of the two last of the XII. Tables, but again withdrawn. The object of keeping the Fasti secret was, of course, to control the times available for legal and political business.