8.  Tribous Trittys; or a third part.  Romulus’s heavy-armed men, three thousand in number (as Dio tells us in the first book of his History), were divided into three sections called tribous, i. e. trittyes, which the Greeks also termed “tribes.”  Each trittys was separated into ten Curiae or “thinking bodies”—­cura meaning thoughtfulness—­and the men who were appointed to each particular curia came together and thought out the business in hand.

Among the Greeks the curiae are called phratriae and phatriae—­in other words associations, brotherhoods unions, guilds—­from the fact that men of the same phratry phrased or revealed to one another their own intentions without scruple or fear.  Hence fathers or kinsmen or teachers are phrators,—­those who share in the same phratry.  But possibly it was derived from the Roman word frater, which signifies “brother.” (—­Glossar.  Nom.  Labbaei.)

9. (And he named the people populus.) Hence in the Law Books the popular assembly has the name popularia. (Zonaras 7, 3 (vol. 11, p. 91, 17 and 18.) Cp.  Haupt, Hermes XIV.)

10.  She [i. e.  Tarpeia] having come down for water was seized and brought to Tatius, and was induced to betray the fathers. (Zonaras, ib., p. 93, 15-17.)

11.  It is far better for them [senate-houses?] to be established anew than having existed previously to be named over. (Mai, p. 137.)

12. ¶Romulus assumed a rather harsh attitude toward the senate and behaved toward it rather like a tyrant, and the hostages of the Veientes he returned [Footnote:  Mai supplies the missing verb.] on his own responsibility and not by common consent, as was usually done.  When he perceived them vexed at this he made a number of unpleasant remarks, and finally said:  “I have chosen you, Fathers, not for the purpose of your ruling me, but that I might give directions to you.” (Mai, p. 138.)

[What is said of Romulus in John of Antioch, Frag. 32 (Mueller) to have been drawn from the extant books of Dio.  Cp.  Haupt, Hermes XIV.]

13.  Dio I:  “Thus by nature, doubtless, mankind will not endure to be ruled by what is similar and ordinary partly through jealousy, partly through contempt of it.” [Footnote:  This is probably a remark in regard to the quarrels of the Roman elders over the kingdom after the death of Romulus.—­Compare Livy.  I, 17.] (—­Bekker, Anecd. p. 164, 15.)

14.  Dio in I:  “What time he threw both body and soul into the balance, encountering danger in your behalf.” [Footnote:  Perhaps a reference to the father of Horatius defending his son, or even to Romulus.] (Ib. p. 165, 27.)

[Frag.  V] 1.  Romulus had a crown and a sceptre with an eagle on the top and a white cloak reaching to the feet striped with purple embroideries from the shoulders to the feet:  the name of the cloak was toga, i. e. “covering,” from tegere the corresponding verb (this is the word the Romans use for “cover”) and a purple shoe which was called cothurnus, as Cocceius says. (Io.  Laur.  Lydus, De Magis.  Reip.  Rom. 1, pp. 20-22.)