Note 60 — Chapter I · THE POPULUS AND ITS EARLIEST POLITICAL DIVISIONS
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Fest. ep. 64: “Curiales flamines curiarum sacerdotes.” For the flamen of the Curia Iovis of Simitthus, see CIL. viii. 14683; cf. 2596 and 11008. The statement of Festus, 154. 26, that there were but fifteen flamines must be modified. But there may have been fewer than thirty curial flamines; Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. i. 390. Of the two curial officials mentioned by Dionysius, ii. 21. 2, therefore, one was the curio and the other a lictor (Mommsen, ibid. 309, n. 5; Genz, Patr. Rom., 47) or a flamen (Holzapfel, in Beitr. z. alt. Gesch. i. 242).