[2234] App. Iber. 83; cf. p. 188, n. 2, 342, 367.
[2235] Cic. Amic. 25. 96; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 335, 688.
[2236] Plut. Ti. Gracch. 8.
[2237] Polyb. vi. 18. 5-8 (Shuckburgh’s rendering).
[2238] The main part of his history was composed before the third war with Carthage; Christ, W., Gesch. d. griech. Litteratur (4th ed. 1905), 585; Cuntz, O., Polybius und sein Werk (1902), 82. It is understood, however, that certain parts were inserted after the beginning of the revolutionary period.
[2239] It is true that the Gracchan trouble opened his eyes to some of the defects in the constitution; but the aristocratic recovery after the tribunate of Tiberius (and perhaps after that of Gaius) confirmed his belief in the fundamental soundness and in the recuperative power of the state.
[2240] P. 360 f.
[2241] Livy xxxv. 10. 12: “Multos pecuarios damnarunt.” In Livy xxxiv. 4. 9 Cato while speaking in defence of the Oppian law, in 195, is represented as mentioning the article which established the limit of five hundred iugera.
[2242] Orig. v. 5.
[2243] These are provisions of an agrarian law passed before the tribunate of Ti. Gracchus (App. B. C. i. 8. 33 f.) but not expressly referred to Licinius and Sextius in any ancient source. The first article seems to assume a greater development of slavery than could be true of the year 367, and the second would belong more naturally to a repetition than to the original enactment; p. 296, n. 4, 334, n. 1.