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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 27 (ed. Frank Gardner Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University), chapter 7 (search)
xlii; X. xiii. 8. He added that he had precedents for so doing: an old instance, that of Lucius Postumius Megellus, who as interrex had been elected consulFor the third time, 291 B.C. with Gaius Iunius Bubulcus at an election which he had himself conducted; and a recent case, that of Quintus Fabius,215 B.C.; XXIV. ix. 3 and 9 ff. who surely would never have permitted his consulship to be prolonged unless it were done for the public welfare. After a contest long continued by such speeches, final agreement between the dictator and the tribunes was reached: that they would stand by whatever the senate should decide. To the fathers it seemed a time for the state to have its affairs in the hands of generals mature and experienced and skilled in war; and so they said they did not favour any delaying of the election. Since the tribunes gave way, the election was held. Quintus Fabius Maximus was declared consul for the fifth time, Quintus Fulvius Flaccus for the fourth. Then