[670] Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 7, 12.—According to Velleius Paterculus (II. 6), “he would have extended this right to all the peoples of Italy as far as the Alps.”
[671] Pseudo-Sallust, First Letter to Cæsar, vii.—Titus Livius, XXVI. 22.
[672] “Aut censoria locatio constituta est, ut Asiæ, lege Sempronia.” Cicero, Second Prosecution of Verres, III.—See, on this question, Mommsen, Inscriptiones Latinæ Antiquissimæ, pp. 100, 101.
[673] In the province, the domain of the soil belongs to the Roman people; the proprietor is reputed to have only the possession or usufruct. (Gaius, Institutes, II. 7.)
[674] The senators were reproached with the recent examples of prevarication given by Cornelius Cotta, by Salinator, and by Manius Aquilius, the conqueror of Asia.
[675] Yet the Epitome of Titus Livius (LX.) speaks of 600 knights instead of 300. (See Pliny, Natural History, XXXIII. 7.—Appian, Civil Wars, I. 22.—Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 7.)
[676] Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 12.
[677] Appian, Civil Wars, I. 24.
[678] Appian, Civil Wars, I. 17.
[679] “I am not one of those consuls who think that it is a crime to praise in the Gracchi, as magistrates whose counsels, wisdom, and laws carried a salutary reform into many parts of the administration.” (Cicero, Second Speech on the Agrarian Law, 5.)