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

by George Willis Botsford

[2371] Cf. Greenidge, Hist. of Rome, i. 231.

[2372] Dio Cassius, Frag. 85. 3, in a mutilated passage seems to refer to the great possibilities of a longer career. It would be unreasonable to suppose that so creative a mind could rest content at any given point.

[2373] Fest. 201. 19; Flor. ii. 3. 4 (iii. 15); Diod. xxxiv. 28 a (from Posidonius); (Aurel. Vict.) Vir. Ill. 65. 5; Oros. v. 12. 5; Plut. C. Gracch. 13; App. B. C. i. 24. 105; Pun. 136; Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 47; Greenidge, Hist. of Rome, i. 248; Mommsen, in CIL. i. p. 96.

[2374] App. B. C. i. 27. 121; cf. Long, Rom. Rep. i. 352; Greenidge, ibid. i. 285; Ihne, Hist. of Rome, v. 4 f.

[2375] Ibid. § 122.

[2376] It seems to be a mistake for Spurius Thorius (Cic. Brut. 36. 136: “Sp. Thorius .... qui agrum publicum vitiosa et inutili lege vectigali levavit”). By interpreting this sentence “Sp. Thorius ... who relieved the public land of a defective and useless law by the imposition of a vectigal,” Mommsen (in Verhdl. sächs. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. 92 f.) attempts to bring Cicero into agreement with Appian. But the interpretation is violent and is not generally accepted. The statement of Cicero applies to the law of 111 far better than to that which Appian mentions under the name of Borius.

[2377] App. ibid.; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 688; iii. 51; Long, Rom. Rep. i. 353 f.; Ihne, Hist. of Rome, v. 9; Greenidge, Hist. of Rome, i. 285-8. If, as Greenidge supposes, the Livian colonial rogation became a law, it did not affect the vectigal imposed by the Sempronian statutes (p. 383 above).

It may have been as a compensation for the repeal of this Sempronian statute and of that of Rubrius that a lex of an unknown author provided in this year for the establishment of the colony of Narbo Martius in Narbonensis; Vell. i. 15. 5; ii. 7. 8; Eutrop. iv. 23; Cic. Brut. 43. 160; Cluent. 51. 140; Font. 5. 13; Kornemann, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. iv. 522.

[2378] Brut. 36. 136 (quoted p. 385, n. 5 above); cf. Orat. ii. 70. 284; App. B. C. i. 27. 123; CIL. i. 200; Rudorff, in Zeitschr. f. gesch. Rechtswiss. x (1842). 1-194; Mommsen, in CIL. i. p. 75 ff.; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 478; Long, Rom. Rep. i. 351-86; Greenidge, Hist. of Rome, i. 288.

[2379] The classification here given is a close reproduction of Mommsen, in CIL. i. p. 87-106; cf. Verhdl. sächs. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. i. 89-101.