Cornicen does not seem to have been a family-name, but only a surname given to Postumus Aebutius Elva, who was consul in b.
This gens was distinguished in the early ages, but from the time of the above-mentioned Aebutius Elva, no patrician member of it held any ciirale office till the praetorship of M. Aebutius Elva in b.
It is doubtful to which of the family P. Aebutius belonged, who disclosed to the consul the existence of the Bacchanalia at Rome, and was rewarded by the senate in consequence, b.
Fundus addicitur Aebutio; pecuniam argentario promittit Aebutius; quo testimonio nunc vir optimus utitur sibi emptum esse.
Hoc est periculosum, dissolvi hoc interdictum, est captiosum omnibus rem ullam constitui eius modi quae, cum armis gesta sit, rescindi iure non possit; verum tamen illud est turpissimum, tantae stultitiae prudentissimos homines condemnari, ut vos iudicetis huius rei ius atque actionem in mentem maioribus nostris non venisse.
Aebutius autem qui fatetur aliquo ex loco deiectum esse Caecinam, is quoniam se restituisse dixit, necesse est male fecerit sponsionem.' [81] Quid est, Piso?