[2400] Tac. Ann. xii. 60, confirmed by a statement of Cicero, in Ascon. 79, that senators and knights first sat together as jurors under the Plautian law of 89 (p. 402 below).
[2401] Cassiod. Chron. 384 C: “Per Servilium Caepionem consulem iudicia equitatibus et senatoribus communicata”; Obseq. 41 (101).
[2402] Cf. further Cic. Inv. i. 49. 92; Brut. 43. 161; 44. 164; Cluent. 51. 140; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 668; iii. 67 f.; Long, Rom. Rep. ii. 2 f.; Greenidge, Hist. of Rome, i. 477-82. But that the knights continued in uninterrupted possession of the courts is proved by Cicero, Verr. i. 13. 38; Pseud. Ascon. 103, 145.
[2403] P. 355.
[2404] (Aurel. Vict.) Vir. Ill. 72. 5; Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 53; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 478. His lex sumptuaria of the same year, perhaps combined in one law with the provision concerning the libertini, limited not only the expense of meals but also the kind of food and the mode of preparing it; Pliny, N. H. viii. 57. 223; cf. Gell. ii. 24. 12; (Aurel. Vict.) ibid.—Two other sumptuary laws, both of which were enacted before 97, may be mentioned here. The statute of P. Licinius Crassus, pretorian or tribunician, ex senatus consulto, perhaps 104, made some changes in the lex Fannia and the lex Didia; Gell. ii. 24. 7; xv. 8; Macrob. Sat. iii. 17. 7; Fest. ep. 54; p. 356 above.—It was repealed by the plebiscite of M. Duronius before 97; Val. Max ii. 9. 5; Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 71, 88.
[2405] Ascon. 67 f.; cf. p. 382, 392.
[2406] The reading of the MS. of Velleius, ii. 11. 1 (“natus equestri loco”) should not be corrected to “agresti loco” to conform with Plut. Mar. 3. Velleius has mentioned his equestrian birth to explain his connections with the publicans referred to in the following sentence.
[2407] The opposition of Marius to the populace is proved by his intercession against a frumentarian rogation of the same year, the purport of which is not definitely stated; Plut. Mar. 4.
[2408] Cic. Pis. 15. 36; Red. in Sen. 11. 28. On the pontes, see p. 469.
[2409] Varro, R. R. iii. 5. 18. On the custodes, see also p. 467 below.