[2164] Cato, Orat. lxviii, lxxv; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 660; Voigt, Die lex Maenia de dote vom Jahre 568 der Stadt; Röm. Rechtsgesch. i. 789-801, attempts to determine the contents as well as the date; cf. Arndts, in Zeitschr. f. Rechtsgesch. vii (1868). 1-44.
[2165] Livy xxxvii. 36. 7 f.; cf. Cic. Verr. II. i. 5. 13.
[2166] Ibid. § 9; p. 57 f., 334 above.
[2167] P. 340.
[2168] Livy xxxviii. 36. 5 f.
[2169] Cic. Brut. 20. 79; cf. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 135, n. 1.
[2170] A pretorian law of Valerius Flaccus, 98, for the purpose is mentioned by Cic. Balb. 24. 55; cf. CIL. vi. 2181 f.; Pais, Anc. Italy, 309. Naturally before the establishment of the right of the people in this matter (p. 283, 304) the grant was made by the consuls and the censors.
[2171] Cic. Balb. 9. 24.
[2172] Cf. the bestowal of citizenship upon the Carthaginian Muttines by a plebiscite ex auctoritate patrum in 210; Livy xxvii. 5. 7; Varro, in Ascon. 13.
[2173] See the literature on the ius postliminii in Schiller, Röm. Staatsalt. 618. There were certain cases of restoration of citizenship, however, which were thought to require a comitial vote; Cic. Balb. 11. 28. But on this question opinions differed; cf. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 656, n. 1.