[2077] Fronto ad Amicos ii. 7.
[2078] Marquardt (Staatsverw. i. p. 227) remarks that such a question as the qualification of a decurion belongs under Caesar’s legislation (lex Ursonensis c. 105) to the municipal courts.
[2079] pp. 408, 410.
[2080] Mommsen Staatsr. ii. p. 1082, Liebenam Städteverw. p. 480, and in Philologus lvi. 290 ff. How far this curatorship became a standing office is uncertain.
[2081] p. 428.
[2082] The first official ad corrigendum statum Italiae belongs to the year 214 A.D., while the provincial corrector goes back to the time of Trajan (Marquardt Staatsverw. i. pp. 228, 229).
[2083] See the inscription of Atina of the time of Augustus (Wilmanns 1120), “T. Helvio ... legato Caesaris Augusti, qui Atinatibus HS ... legavit, ut liberis eorum ex reditu, dum in aetatem pervenirent, frumentum et postea sestertia singula millia darentur.”
[2084] Victor Epit. 12; Dio Cass. lxviii. 5.
[2085] Marquardt Staatsverw. ii. pp. 143, 144. Pius, in honour of his wife Faustina, created a fund for puellae Faustinianae (Vita 8); Alexander, in honour of his mother, one for pueri puellaeque Mammaeani (Vita 57).
[2086] Our knowledge of this institution is derived chiefly from two metal tables, the Tabula Veleias (of Veleia in Cisalpine Gaul) and the Tabula Baebianorum (of the Ligures Baebiani near Beneventum). See E. Desjardins De tabulis alimentariis, Mommsen in I.R.N. 1354, Wilmanns 2844, 2845. On the institution see Marquardt Staatsverw. ii. pp. 141-147, Liebenam Städteverw. pp. 105, 360.