Note 1279 — Chapter X · THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COMITIA CENTURIATA
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Röm. Gesch. iii. 374 ff.
It is not improbable that the first step was the reduction of the first class to seventy centuries, the ten centuries deducted being at the same time added to the lower classes. This view will explain Cic. Rep. ii. 22. 39, which otherwise must be considered a mistake; p. 67, 205, n. 5.