The right of the people in their tribal assemblies to legislate concerning religion had already been established by the precedent of the Licinian-Sextian plebiscite on the decemviri sacris faciundis[1881] and of other less important acts.[1882] Immediately after the Publilian legislation the comitia of tribes became more active in this field. To the period of the great Latin war according to Cicero,[1883] hence necessarily to 338,[1884] belongs the consular lex Maenia, which added to the Ludi Romani the day called instauraticius,[1885] although less trustworthy accounts assign the establishment of this day to 491.[1886] The law initiated by the senate in 304 forbidding the dedication of a temple or altar except by permission of the senate or of a majority of the college of tribunes[1887] was probably passed by the comitia tributa plebis. In the opinion of Lange[1888] it was either identical with, or afterward supplemented by, the lex Papiria tribunicia, which forbade the consecration of a temple, precinct, or altar without an order of the plebs.[1889] The latter is the more probable; it seems reasonable that, as Lange suggests, the right of the people in this matter developed from the necessity of referring to them cases in which the senate and the tribunes could not agree. Technically religious, though of vast political consequence, was the Ogulnian plebiscite of 300, which increased the number of augurs and pontiffs to nine each, and provided that four augurs and five pontiffs should be plebeian.[1890] It was the last step in the opening of offices to the plebs.