[2380] Lex Agr. 27 (cf. 4), in CIL. i. 200.
[2381] Ibid. 20-23.
[2382] Ibid. 2; cf. 13 f.
[2383] Ibid. 3, 15 f. The word sortito in these passages, e.g. “IIIvir sortito ceivi Romano dedit adsignavit,” proves a reference to the founding of colonies, as viritim assignations were not by lot; Mommsen, in CIL. i. p. 87.
[2384] Ibid. 5.
[2385] Ibid. 13 f. Although occupation was forbidden by the agrarian law of Ti. Gracchus (p. 366 above), they did take place, and are legalized by this article of the law of 111, in so far as they do not exceed the specified limit.
[2386] Lex Agr. 12: “Eum agrum quem ex h(ace) l(ege) venire dari reddive oportebit”; cf. 32. We do not know what land is meant. Perhaps Sipontia is included in this category; cf. 43; Mommsen, in CIL. i. p. 89.
[2387] Lex Agr. 19 f.; App. B. C. i. 27. 123; Cic. Brut. 36. 136: “Sp. Thorius ... qui agrum publicum vitiosa et inutili lege vectigali levavit” (“Sp. Thorius ... who by a mischievous and useless law freed the public land of vectigal”).
[2388] P. 365.
[2389] Lex Agr. 11-3; Mommsen, in CIL. i. p. 90.