Moreover Brutus is affirmed to have been -tribunus celerum- at the expulsion of the kings (Liv.i.

59), and according to Dionysius (iv.

71) to have even by virtue of this office made the proposal to banish the Tarquins.

And, lastly, Pomponius (Dig.

i.
2, 2, 15, 19) and Lydus in a similar way, partly perhaps borrowing from him (De Mag.