Note 2068 — Chapter XV · COMITIAL LEGISLATION From Hortensius to the Gracchi 287-134
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Livy xx, Frag.; Krüger and Mommsen, in Hermes, iv (1870). 371-6; Tac. Ann. xii. 6. Livy states that a marriage of a patrician with a relative of the sixth degree caused a riot of the plebs, which drove the patres for refuge to the Capitol.