[2343] Bruns, Font. Iur. p. 48-53; Girard, Textes, p. 26-9.
[2344] As indicated by the “Ioudex, quei ex hace lege plebeive scito factus erit”; § 2.
[2345] Karlowa, Röm. Rechtsgesch. i. 431. Kirchhoff, Stadtrecht von Bantia, 90-7, regards it as a part of a judiciary law. Mommsen, in CIL. i. p. 46 f., connects it with a treaty between Rome and Bantia. See also Krüger-Brissaud, Hist. d. source d. droit Rom. 94.
[2346] Cic. Verr. iii. 6. 12; Att. i. 17. 9; Schol. Bob. 259; Vell. ii. 6. 3; Gell. xi. 10; App. B. C. v. 4. 17 f.; Fronto, Ad Verum, p. 125; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 674 f.; iii. 34; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 468 f.; Greenidge, Hist. of Rome, i. 217-21. Hitherto the senate had exercised unrestricted power in granting such remissions; Polyb. vi. 17. 5.
[2347] App. B. C. v. 4. 19; Diod. xxxv. 25.
[2348] App. B. C. i. 22. 94-7.
[2349] Varro, in Non. Marc. 454; Flor. ii. 5. 3 (iii. 17).
[2350] Diod. xxxvii. 9; cf. Cic. Leg. iii. 9. 20. As a substitute for his law concerning the taxation of Asia his opponents vainly offered the rogatio Aufeia, probably pretorian, on the same subject; Gell. xi. 10; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 675; iii. 35.
[2351] Cic. Prov. Cons. 2. 3; Balb. 27. 61; Dom. 9. 24; Fam. i. 7. 10; Sall. Iug. 27; Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 41; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 470. Before the enactment of this law it was possible for the people to grant a province to whomsoever it pleased, whether magistrate or private person. A lex of 131, probably tribunician, had given the province of Asia to P. Licinius Crassus, consul; Livy, ep. lix; Cic. Phil. xi. 8. 18. The Sempronian law did not affect their right. In 107 a plebiscite of C. Manlius granted Numidia, with the conduct of the Jugurthine war, to C. Marius, consul; Sall. Iug. 73; Gell. vii. 11. 2; CIL. i. p. 290 f. On the Sulpician law for granting the conduct of the Mithridatic war to Marius, then a private citizen, see p. 404.
[2352] Cic. Prov. Cons. 7. 17.