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Notes to Morgan, pp. 222-227.Rathes der Alten und der Versammlung der Wehrmänner regiert.”The political sovereignty and the office of prince cannot have beenfeatures of government in ältester Zeit; a more clearly marked outsequence of relative chronology was needed, but Mommsen did notthink the matter through, persuading himself that his phrases metthe evidence adequately, and that the evidence was adequate for theconclusion reached, thus solving the problem of the early politicaldevelopment of Rome. M s.: aggression and defence.230 Ms.: parallelism. f231 “ When Appius Claudius was taken to prison, Gaius Claudius, theenemy (of Applius Claudius) and all the Claudian gens put on mourningclothes.”232 “And to share with their patrons ... the costs incurred in their postsand dignities in the same way as though they were of the same gens.”233 The source for this account is Herodotus, History, V, 68. Cf. Morgan,op. cit., p. 303, where it is traced back to Grote’s History.234 M s.: Peregrinae conditionis homine relati usurpare Romana nomina,dundax et gentilicia. “ He forbade foreigners to assume Roman names,at least names of gentes.” - Suetonius, Life of Claudius.235 “Three hundred and six perished, it is commonly said; one just underthe age of puberty survived, who was the stem of the Fabian gens andbecame the greatest future support in all internal affairs and wars ofthe Romans.” - Loeb Library, B. O. Foster, ed. Ms.: unum probepubescem etc., gente Fabiae etc.236 Ms.: Roman.237 “ And thus he divided the people into thirty curiae, giving their names(of the Sabine women) to each.”238 “Phratra and lokhos (military unit) curia.” “These curiae were dividedinto decades, each under its own head, who was called decurion intheir language.”239 “And each tribe had ten phratries, which were named eponymouslyafter those (Sabine) women.” Plutarch, Life of Romulus, ch. 20.240 If Romulus is not an individual but a generalization of a kind ofleadership in the late proto-history of Rome, and the name given tothat phenomenon as a personalization, then the legislation in questionshould be understood differently, since the legislator’s particularexistence is denied.241 Ms.: ’ίσους.242 “ F r o m the neighboring places a crowd of people of all kinds came forrefuge, without distinguishing freemen from slaves, in quest fornovelty, these were the first who came because of the (city’s) greatness.”243 “ He created 100 senators either because that number was sufficient orbecause there were 100 who could be made fathers; the title of Paterwas applied to them and that of patrician to their progeny.”409