[Footnote 107: Except on public occasions, and in the actual
exercise of his office. In publicis locis atque muneribus,
atque actionibus patrum, jura cum filiorum qui in magistratu
sunt potestatibus collata interquiescere paullulum et
connivere, &c., (Aul. Gellius, Noctes Atticae, ii. 2.) The
Lessons of the philosopher Taurus were justified by the old
and memorable example of Fabius; and we may contemplate the
same story in the style of Livy (xxiv. 44) and the homely
idiom of Claudius Quadri garius the annalist.]