[2353] Cf. Greenidge, Hist. of Rome, i. 222 f.
[2354] Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 672.
[2355] P. 368.
[2356] Plut. C. Gracch. 5; cf. Livy xxv. 5. 5-8. In speaking on the rogation of Cn. Marcius Censorinus, a proposal not otherwise known, Gaius is said to have remarked: “Si vobis probati essent homines adulescentes, tamen necessario vobis tribuni militares veteres faciundi essent”; Charis. 208. The new epitome of Livy proves that the military question was more prominently before the public at this time than has hitherto been supposed.
[2357] XXXV. 25. For the Gracchi in general Diodorus draws from Posidonius, an exceedingly hostile source.
[2358] Livy lx; App. B. C. i. 23 f.; Plut. C. Gracch. 6, 8 f.; (Aurel. Vict.) Vir. Ill. 65. 3. The date is established by Vell. i. 15. 4; Oros. v. 12. 1; cf. Meyer, Gesch. d. Gracch. 95, n. 4; Mommsen, in CIL. p. 87, 96.
[2359] Plut. C. Gracch. 9; cf. Greenidge, Hist. of Rome, i. 224 f.
[2360] Vell. i. 15. 4; (Aurel. Vict.) Vir. Ill. 65. 3; cf. Kornemann, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. iv. 522; Ferrero, Rome, i. 55. His plan to colonize Capua (Plut. C. Gracch. 8) was not carried out.
[2361] The lex Sempronia or Graccana, mentioned in the Liber Coloniarum, in Gromatici (Lachmann), p. 229, 233, 237, 238; cf. p. 216, 219, 228, 255; cf. Greenidge, Hist. of Rome, i. 224, n. 2.
[2362] This fact is deduced from the literary references to the subject and from the terms of the agrarian law of 111; CIL. i. 200. 5, 13; cf. Mommsen’s comment, p. 90. The same principle holds for any other colonies founded in Italy between 133 and 111.