[1487] Sicily, Sardinia, Hither and Further Spain, Illyricum, Macedonia and Achaea (separated by Caesar), Africa, Asia, Gallia Narbonensis, Gallia Cisalpina, Bithynia, Cyrene with Crete, Cilicia and Syria.
[1488] The number is given by Pliny (H.N. iii. 88). In Cicero’s time there was about this number. He speaks of the appointment of 130 censors (in Verr. ii. 55, 137), two for each state (ib. 53, 133).
[1489] Cassiodorus Chron. ad A.U.C. 670 “Asiam in XLIIII. regiones Sulla distribuit.”
[1490] Tac. Ann. iii. 44. This division may be the work of Augustus.
[1491] pp. 244, 283.
[1492] p. 245.
[1493] Except that ownership of the soil is not always, as in Italy, the ground of exemption from taxation. On the free city of Termessus in Pisidia “free possession” is alone conferred.
[1494] See the lex Antonia de Termessibus (71 B.C.), especially the clause which confers autonomy “so far as is consistent with this charter” (i. l. 7 “eique legibus sueis ita utunto ... quod advorsus hanc legem non fiat”).
[1495] Cic. de Prov. Cons. 3, 6. For the weakening of this respect for αὐτονομία in the Ciceronian period and Caesar’s attempt to strengthen it by law (probably the lex Julia repetundarum of 59 B.C.) see Cic. in Verr. iii 89, 207; in Pis. 16, 37 (“lege Caesaris justissima atque optima populi liberi plane et vere erant liberi”).
[1496] Festus p. 218.