What then?
ought no innovation to be introduced?
and what has not yet been practised, (and in a new state there are many things not yet practised,) ought not even such measures, even though they be useful, be adopted?
During the reign of Romulus there were no pontiffs, nor augurs: they were appointed by Numa Pompilius.

There was no census in the state, nor the distribution of centuries and classes; it was introduced by Servius Tullius: there never had been consuls; they were created after the expulsion of the kings.

Of a dictator neither the office nor the name had existed; it commenced its existence among the senators.

There were no tribunes of the people, aediles, nor quaestors: it was resolved that those officers should be appointed.

Within the last ten years we both created decemvirs for compiling laws, and we abolished them.