Bandel (Dict. 14) suggests that, since a Dictator was appointed during a pestilence in 363 clavi figendi causa, the pestilence of a century before (Liv. 3.6) explains the one which Lydus places in the 48th year of the Republic. This Dictator is named in no other source, and no C. Aemilius is mentioned in this period. Possibly Lydus, as in 482, has again confused an Interrex with a Dictator. On the ancient law de clavo pangendo, see Rotondi 198; Hanell, Altrömische Eponyme Amt 125ff. (Broughton MRR I)
Bandel (Dict. 14) suggests that, since a Dictator was appointed during a pestilence in 363 clavi figendi causa, the pestilence of a century before (Liv. 3.6) explains the one which Lydus places in the 48th year of the Republic. This Dictator is named in no other source, and no C. Aemilius is mentioned in this period. Possibly Lydus, as in 482, has again confused an Interrex with a Dictator. On the ancient law de clavo pangendo, see Rotondi 198; Hanell, Altrömische Eponyme Amt 125ff. (Broughton MRR I)