[2095] Polyb. iii. 87. 6; Livy xxii. 8. 5 f.
[2096] Cf. Herzog, ibid. i. 358 f.; Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. ii. 169.
[2097] Livy xxvii. 20. 11-3; 21. 1-4; Plut. Marcell. 27. It is surprising that in 204 the question of abrogating the proconsular imperium of Scipio through a plebiscite was discussed in the senate; Livy xxix. 19. 6.
The grant of a burial place “virtutis caussa senatus consulto populique iussu” (CIL. i. 635) to a C. Poplicius Bibulus was not to this Bibulus but to some unknown person of the same name near the close of the republic.
[2098] P. 360.
[2099] Livy xxvii. 21. 10; xxx. 19. 9.
[2100] Lange, Röm. Alt. i. 850, 861; ii. 151, 654.
[2101] Livy xxvii. 6. 7; cf. p. 298 above. Two other dispensations from laws by act of the people are recorded for the latter part of this century: (1) the plebiscite of 203, which exempted C. Servilius from the law prohibiting the election of a man to the plebeian tribunate or aedileship in the lifetime of a father who had filled a curule office (Livy xxx. 19. 9); (2) a plebiscite of 200 for permitting L. Valerius Flaccus to take the oath of office for the aedileship as a proxy for his brother, who being flamen Dialis was forbidden to swear; Livy xxxi. 50. 7-9.
[2102] Cf. Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 369.
[2103] VI. 11. 1.