Ab urbe condita

Titus Livius (Livy)

Livy. History of Rome, Volumes 1-2. Roberts, Canon, Rev, translator. London, New York: J. M. Dent and Sons; E. P. Dutton and Co., 1912.

being elected, but as matters were he would not allow his name to stand, since it would be against the law and form a most dangerous precedent.