Note 65 — Chapter I · THE POPULUS AND ITS EARLIEST POLITICAL DIVISIONS
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Soltau, Altröm. Volksversamml. 52, 65, following J. J. Müller, in Philol. xxxiv (1874), 96-136, refuses to credit a military character to the curiae because it is mentioned by no other writer and because we can find no trace of it in historical time. His reasoning is not cogent. The curia may have lost its earlier military function, as did the phratry (Il. ii. 362 f.).