All the oflicials of the earliest period, the extraordinary city-warden as well as the “leaders of division” (tribum', from tribus, part) of the infantry (milz'tes) and of the cavalry (celeres) were merely commissioned by the king, and not magistrates in the
sense of the term.
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
