[1367] Liv. xlv. 13; Dittenberger n. 240. The Senate sometimes referred questions respecting the internal affairs of these states to Roman patroni, with whom they had entered into relations of clientship (Liv. ix. 20; Cic. pro Sulla 21, 60).
[1368] lex de Termessibus ii. 6 “Nei quis magistratus ... meilites ... introducito ... nisei senatus nominatim ... decreverit.”
[1369] Sall. Jug. 62 “Metellus propere cunctos senatorii ordinis ex hibernis accersi jubet: eorum et aliorum, quos idoneos ducebat, consilium habet.” Cf. c. 104 “Marius ... Sullam (the quaestor) ab Utica venire jubet, item L. Bellienum praetorem, praeterea omnes undique senatorii ordinis, quibuscum mandata Bocchi cognoscit.”
[1370] Cic. ad Att. ii. 16, 4 “Illud tamen, quod scribit (Q. Cicero, governor of Asia) animadvertas velim, de portorio circumvectionis; ait se de consilii sententia rem ad senatum rejecisse.”
[1371] Cic. de Off. ii. 22, 76 “tantum in aerarium pecuniae invexit (Paulus) ut unius imperatoris praeda finem attulerit tributorum.” Cf. Plut. Paul. 38.
[1372] Momms. Staatsr. iii. 2 pp. 1112-20.
[1373] Plut. Ti. Gracch. 14 οὐδὲν ἔφη τῇ συγκλήτῳ βουλεύεσθαι προσήκειν, ἀλλὰ τῳ δήμῳ γνώμην αὐτὸς προθήσειν.
[1374] p. 229.
[1375] The Senate invalidated the locationes of the censors of 184 B.C. (Liv. xxxix. 44 “locationes cum senatus precibus et lacrimis publicanorum victus induci et de integro locari jussisset”). A vain appeal was made by the publicani of Asia to remit their contracts in 60 B.C. (Cic. ad Att. i. 17, 9; cf. ii. 1, 8).
[1376] The business of draining the Pomptine marshes is entrusted to a consul (Liv. Ep. xlvi.), the building of an aqueduct to a praetor (Frontin. de Aquaed. 7).