[Footnote 34: Dion Cassius (tom. i. l. xxxvi. p. 100) fixes
the perpetual edicts in the year of Rome, 686. Their
institution, however, is ascribed to the year 585 in the
Acta Diurna, which have been published from the papers of
Ludovicus Vives. Their authenticity is supported or allowed
by Pighius, (Annal. Rom. tom. ii. p. 377, 378,) Graevius,
(ad Sueton. p. 778,) Dodwell, (Praelection. Cambden, p.
665,) and Heineccius: but a single word, Scutum Cimbricum,
detects the forgery, (Moyle's Works, vol. i. p. 303.)]