[654] Machiavelli, Discourse on Titus Livius, I. 37.
[655] Plutarch, Tib. Gracchus, 16.
[656] Appian, Civil Wars, I. 14.
[657] Plutarch, Tib. Gracchus, 16, 22.
[658] Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 5.
[659] They interdicted to the magistrates deposed by the people the exercise of all functions, and authorised criminal proceedings against the magistrate who had been the author of the illegal banishment of a citizen. The first of these struck openly at Octavius, whom Tiberius had deposed; the second at Popilius, who, in his prætorship, had banished the friends of Tiberius. (Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 8.)
[660] Appian, Civil Wars, I. 21.
[661] “In 556, the curule ediles Fulvius Nobilior and Flaminius distributed to the people a million of modii of Sicilian wheat, at two ases the bushel.” (Titus Livius, XXXIII. 42.)
[662] Appian, Civil Wars, I. 21.—Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, III. 20.
[663] Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 7. According to what Polybius says, the period of service was fixed at ten years, for we read in Plutarch: “Caius Gracchus said to the censors that, obliged only by the law to ten campaigns, he had made twelve.” (Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 4.)