The Roman assemblies from their origin to the end of the Republic

by George Willis Botsford

[2284] Cf. Strachan-Davidson, Appian, p. 23. It was under the second contingency that C. Gracchus was reëlected tribune without being a candidate; Plut. C. Gracch. 8. The third time, though as some averred he had a majority of votes, the presiding tribune dared reject them; ibid. 12; Meyer, Gesch. d. Gracch. 94, n. 3. Fowler’s suggestion (Eng. Hist. Rev. xx. 217) that the law permitted but one reëlection of an individual is on the whole unlikely.

[2285] Cic. Leg. iii. 16. 35; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 461; Greenidge, Hist. of Rome, i. 163 f.

[2286] The measure was being agitated at the time to which Cicero referred the dialogue On the Republic, iv. 2; cf. Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 8. 33; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 657; iii. 25. On the Claudian law, see p. 335 above.

[2287] P. 358.

[2288] Lex Acil. Rep. 23, 74, in CIL. i. 198; Zumpt, in Abhdl. d. Akad. zu Berlin, 1845. 1-70, 475-515; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 664; iii. 26; Greenidge, Leg. Proced. 420; Hist. of Rome, i. 135, 211. The Latin Lex Bantina (CIL. i. 197), identified by some with the Lex Iunia, seems rather to belong to the tribunate of C. Gracchus; p. 379.

[2289] Cic. Off. iii. 11. 47; Brut. 28. 109; Fest. 286. 10; Long, Rom. Rep. i. 237 f.; Greenidge, Hist. of Rome, i. 166 f.

[2290] App. B. C., i. 21, 34. 152; Val. Max. ix. 5. 1; Ihne, Hist. of Rome, iv. 418-21; Long, ibid. 241; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 462; Greenidge, ibid. 167 ff.; Meyer, Gesch. d. Gracch. 93; Fowler, in Eng. Hist. Rev. xx. 422.

[2291] In March, April, and May, according to Kornemann, Gesch. d. Gracch. 44.

[2292] On the order of his enactments, see Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 38; Greenidge, Hist. of Rome, i. 210; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 466; Meyer, Gesch. d. Gracch. 95, n. 4; Kornemann, Gesch. d. Gracch. 42 ff.; Fowler, in Eng. Hist. Rev. xx. (1905). 216 ff. Meyer calls attention to the fact that while Appian, B. C. i. 21 f., states the enactments in substantially correct order, he wrongly identifies the date of reëlection—midsummer 123—with the date of entrance upon his second term—December 10, 123—in this way pushing forward into the second year a large group of enactments which belong to the latter part of his first term.

[2293] P. 367.