[695] This procedure too was followed by Bibulus; Dio Cass. xxxviii. 6. 1; cf. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. i. 82, n. 3.
[696] That they were two separate enactments, and not one complex statute by joint authors, is clearly indicated by Cic. Har. Resp. 27. 58: “Sustulit duas leges Aeliam et Fufiam;” Sest. 15. 33. Generally they are spoken of as separate laws, though Cicero occasionally, as Vatin. 5. 7, groups them in one. That they were plebiscites is held probable by Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. i. 111, n. 4.
[697] When Cicero, Vatin. 9. 23, states that these laws survived the ferocity of the Gracchi, the audacity of Saturninus, etc., he places their origin in the times before the Gracchi; and when he speaks of their abolition, 58, he tells us that they had been in force about a hundred years (Pis. 5. 10).
[698] Dio Cass. xxxviii. 13.
[699] Vatin. 7. 18.
[700] Ibid. 9. 13.
[701] Red. in Sen. 5. 11; cf. Har. Resp. 27. 58; Pis. 4. 9: “Propugnacula murique tranquillitatis atque otii.” With other provisions of these statutes (cf. Cic. Att. i. 16. 13; Schol. Bob. 319 f.) the present discussion is not concerned. See further on these laws, p. 358 f. below.
[702] Kleine Schriften, i. 274 ff., 341; Röm. Alt. ii. 315, 477 f.
[703] Att. iv. 3. 4; 16. 5; Phil. ii. 32. 81.
[704] Cic. Vatin. 6. 15; 7. 18.