[2440] (Aurel. Vict.) Vir. Ill. 73. 1: “Ut gratiam Marianorum militum pararet, legem tulit, ut veteranis centena agri iugera in Africa dividerentur, intercedentem Baebium collegam facta per populum lapidatione submovit”; Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 76; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 485; Klebs, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. ii. 262. In the opinion of Mühl, App. Sat. 77 f., the colonia Mariana (p. 396 below) was founded under this law.
[2441] P. 86, 89.
[2442] Cic. Orat. ii. 25. 107; 49. 201; N. D. iii. 30. 74.
[2443] As indicated by the fact that the trial of C. Norbanus in 95 took place under the law; Cic. Orat. 21. 89; 25. 107; 50. 203; Off. ii. 14. 49; Val. Max. viii. 5. 2.
[2444] The theory that the court established by the Appuleian law was special is held by Mommsen, Hist. of Rome, iii (1898). 440, n. 1; Röm. Staatsr. ii. 664, n. 1; Röm. Strafr. 198. Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 76, 82, supposes that in his first tribunate he established a special court and in his second by his lex maiestatis a quaestio perpetua. Mühl, App. Sat. 74, also strongly favors the second. The statement of Gran. Licin. xxxiii (?). 4—“Cn. Manilius (for Manlius or Mallius; cf. CIL. i². p. 152 f.) ob eandem causam quam et Cepio L. Saturnini rogatione e civitate est cito (for plebiscito?) eiectus”—Lange applies to the rogation for a special court. The circumstance that the trial of Norbanus took place no less than five years after the enactment of the law and the general tenor of Cicero’s account of that trial (see n. 4 above) point clearly to the existence of a standing court; cf. Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 485; Madvig, Röm. Staat. ii. 275; Klebs, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. ii. 262 f.; Lengle, Sull. Verf. 23-32.
To the same tribune, either in 103 or in 100, may belong the lex Appuleia de sponsu (Gaius iii. 122; p. 298, n. 1 above). In that case the lex Furia de sponsu (Gaius iii. 121; iv. 22; cf. same page above) must belong to the first century B.C.
[2445] (Aurel. Vict.) Vir. Ill. 73. 5: “Tribunus plebis refectus (Saturninus) Siciliam, Achaiam, Macedoniam novis colonis destinavit et aurum (Tolosanum), dolo an scelere Caepionis partum, ad emptionem agrorum convertit.” For Corsica, see p. 396.
[2446] Cic. Balb. 21. 48. The MS. reads “ternos,” which may be a mistake for a larger number (trecenos?).
[2447] App. B. C. i. 29. 130, 132; Long, Rom. Rep. ii. 111 f.; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 486.
[2448] (Cic.) Herenn. i. 12. 21; Long, Rom. Rep. ii. 114 f.; Herzog, ibid. i. 486 f.