Note 1456 — Chapter XI · THE FUNCTIONS OF THE COMITIA CENTURIATA
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Livy x. 9. 5: “Improbe factum.” This denunciation might involve penal consequences according to Greenidge, Leg. Proced. 319 f. Mommsen, Röm. Strafr. 167, 632 f., supposes the expression to signify that the offending magistrate was to be treated as a private person and punished for murder. Some are of the opinion that it involved loss of citizenship, whereas others suppose its effect was simply moral; cf. Karlowa, Röm. Rechtsgesch. i. 429.