[2056] Livy xxxiv. 1 ff.; Tac. Ann. iii. 33 f.; Oros. iv. 20. 14; Zon. ix. 17; cf. Ihne, Hist. of Rome, ii. 290.
[2057] P. 356. The lex lenonia mentioned by Plautus (Fest. ep. 143), if indeed it is not a mere joke, should also be classed as sumptuary; cf. p. 528, n. 2.
[2058] Polyb. vi. 56; Plut. Rom. 13.
[2059] Livy xxxiv. 4. 9: “Vectigalis iam et stipendiaria plebs esse senatui coeperat.”
[2060] Livy xxii. 1. 19; Wissowa, Relig. u. Kult. d. Röm. 170.
[2061] Sat. i. 7. 33.
[2062] Livy xxvii. 20. 11.
[2063] Livy xxix. 20. 11.
[2064] Livy xxxiv. 4. 9; Cic. Senec. 4. 10; Orat. ii. 71. 286; Att. i. 20. 7; Fest. ep. 143, including a quotation from Plautus; Tac. Ann. xi. 5; xiii. 42; xv. 20; Frag. Vat. 260 ff. (Ad legem Cinciam de donationibus); Bruns, Quid conferant Vaticana fragmenta ad melius cognoscendum ius Romanum, 112 ff.; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 366; Garofalo, in Bull. dell’ ist. di diritt. Rom. xv (1903). 310-2. In the opinion of Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 191, the law may have resulted in part from the selfishness of the rich, with a view to checking the presentation of gifts among themselves.
[2065] Cic. Leg. iii. 4. 11; Lex Iul. Col. Gen. 93; Mommsen, Ephem. Ep. ii. 139; Bruns, Font. Iur. p. 123.