Note 1271 — Chapter X · THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COMITIA CENTURIATA

Mommsen, Röm. Trib. 108, preferred Fabius, and his view has been accepted by Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 499; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 326; Kübler, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. iii. 1956; Le Tellier, Organ. cent. 75; Willems, Droit public Röm. 93; Karlowa, Röm. Rechtsgesch. i. 384; and others. But in his Staatsr. iii. 254, n. 4, 270, n. 3, following Göttling, Gesch. d. röm. Staatsverf. 383, he changes his preference to Flaminius on the ground that the conflict between the patricians and the plebeians continued to the war with Hannibal (Sall. Hist. i. 9. 11), ending, as he supposes, in the opening of the six patrician centuries of knights to the plebeians—a change which he connects with the reform under discussion. His reasoning as to the date is not cogent, and is outweighed by the consideration given in the text.