[1327] Plut. Ti. Gracch. 10; App. B.C. i. 12.
[1328] Polyb. xxx. 4. For the motive of the veto see Liv. xlv. 21 “M. Juventius Thalna ... praetor novo maloque exemplo rem ingressus erat, quod, ante non consulto senatu, non consulibus certioribus factis, de sua unius sententia rogationem ferret vellent juberentne Rhodiis bellum indici, cum antea semper prius senatus de bello consultus esset, deinde ex auctoritate patrum ad populum latum.”
[1329] Suet. Caes. 16 (Caesar supported Metellus in carrying) “turbulentissimas leges adversus collegarum intercessionem ... donec ambo administratione reipublicae decreto patrum submoverentur.”
[1330] In this case the prohibition was effected through the coercive power of the consul springing from his majus imperium (Dio Cass. xlii. 23).
[1331] Tac. Ann. ii. 30 “vetere senatus consulto quaestio in caput domini prohibebatur.”
[1332] Cic. ad Att. v. 21, 13 (50 B.C.) “cum senatus consultum modo factum sit ... in creditorum causa, ut centesimae perpetuo faenore ducerentur.”
[1333] Ascon. in Cornel. p. 58.
[1334] M. Brutus had gained from the Senate the validation of a bond (syngrapha), by which an exorbitant rate of interest was demanded from the government of Salamis in Cyprus. Bonds of this kind, through which obligations were incurred by provincials at Rome, had been rendered illegal by a lex Gabinia of 67 B.C. (Cic. ad Att. v. 21, 12).
[1335] Cic. pro Domo 16, 41 “judicavit senatus M. Drusi legibus, quae contra legem Caeciliam et Didiam latae essent, populum non teneri.” The account that the Livian laws were shelved as contra auspicia (Ascon. in Cornel. p. 68 “Philippus cos.... obtinuit a senatu, ut leges ejus omnes uno s. c. tollerentur. Decretum est enim contra auspicia esse latas neque eis teneri populum”) may contain one of the grounds of their abrogation.
[1336] Cic. ad Att. iii. 15, 5 “Quod te cum Culleone scribis de privilegio locutum, est aliquid, sed multo est melius abrogari.”