Note 1819 — Chapter XIII · THE COMITIA TRIBUTA AND THE RISE OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY From 449 to 287
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Livy xxiii. 31. 13 f.; Plut. Marc. 12 (215). On that occasion when the people were told that the election of two plebeians as colleagues in the consulship was displeasing to the gods, they proceeded to choose a patrician in place of the second plebeian; cf. Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 253, n. 2. The first definitive election of two plebeians was in 172; Fast. Cos. Capit., in CIL. i². p. 25: “Ambo primi de plebe.”