[1467] Only one clause of this law is known—that by which the civitas was granted to incolae enrolled on the registers of federate communities; they were to have the citizenship, if they made profession to the praetor within sixty days (Cic. pro Arch. 4, 7). It is difficult to believe that this cumbrous rule applied to the citizens of the towns.
[1468] The gradual nature of the incorporation is attested by the expression of Velleius (ii. 16), “paulatim deinde recipiendo in civitatem, qui arma aut non ceperant aut deposuerant maturius, vires refectae sunt.”
[1469] Vell. ii. 20 “Itaque cum ita civitas Italiae data esset, ut in octo tribus contribuerentur novi cives, ne potentia eorum et multitudo veterum civium dignitatem frangeret plusque possent recepti in beneficium quam auctores beneficii, Cinna in omnibus tribubus eos se distributurum pollicitus est.” Appian (B.C. i. 49) seems to speak of the creation of ten new tribes (δεκατεύοντες ἀπέφηναν ἑτέρας ἐν αἷς ἐχειροτόνουν ἔσχατοι). The attempt to reconcile these accounts by supposing that they refer to different classes of allies or are the respective products of the two acts of legislation (Kubitschek Imp. Rom. trib. descr.; Beloch der Italische Bund) receives some epigraphic support, but rests either on a correction of Appian’s text or on the assumption that his account refers to ten of the old tribes.
[1470] Liv. Ep. 84 “Novis civibus senatus consulto suffragium datum est,” a careless phrase of the epitomiser or copyist for the distribution through the tribes (Drakenborch). Sulla, in spite of his rescission of the rights of certain rebel towns, did not disturb this arrangement.
[1471] Augustus formed the plan of giving to the senates (decuriones) of the twenty-eight colonies which he founded in Italy the right of voting for the magistrates at Rome. They were to send their votes under seal (Suet. Aug. 46).
[1472] Liv. xxxviii. 36.
[1473] Cicero says that his grandfather, in or just before the consulship of Scaurus (115 B.C.), “restitit M. Gratidio ... ferenti legem tabellariam” (de Leg. iii. 16, 36).
[1474] C.I.L. i. p. 163.
[1475] A fragment of a constitution of Tarentum, dating apparently from a time not long subsequent to the lex Julia of 90 B.C., has been preserved (Fragmentum Tarentinum in L’Année Épigraphique, 1896, pp. 30, 31). Arpinum was undergoing reorganisation in 46 B.C. (Cic. ad Fam. xiii. 11, 3).
[1476] Cic. in Verr. v. 13, 34 “unum illud, quod ita fuit illustre notumque omnibus, ut nemo tam rusticanus homo L. Lucullo et M. Cotta consulibus (74 B.C.) Romam ex ullo municipio vadimonii causa venerit quin sciret jura omnia praetoris urbani nutu ... Chelidonis ... gubernari.”