[2489] Cf. the elogium, n. below.
[2490] Elogium, in CIL. vi. 1312 = i. p. 279. vii: “M. Livius M. F. C. N. Drusus, Pontifex, tr. mil. X. vir. stlit. iudic. tr. pl. X. vir. a. d. a. lege sua et eodem anno V. vir. a. d. a. lege Saufe(i)a, in magistratu occisus est.”
[2491] On M. Livius Drusus, see Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 96-106; Long, Rom. Rep. II. ch. xiii; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 488-93; Ihne, Hist. of Rome, V. ch. xiii; Mommsen, Hist. of Rome, bk. IV. ch. vi; Neumann, Gesch. Roms, i. 451-74; Ferrero, Rome, i. 79 f.
[2492] (Aurel. Vict.) Vir. Ill. 66. 2; Cic. Rosc. Am. 19. 55; Schol. Gronov. 431; Ascon. 30; Dig. xxii. 5. 13; xlviii. 16. 3. 2; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 665; iii. 101; Mommsen, Röm. Strafr. 491, 494. Hitzig, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. iii. 1416, places it earlier.
[2493] Cic. Rosc. Am. 20. 57; Pliny, Paneg. 35; Seneca, De Ira, iii. 3. 6; Mommsen, Röm. Strafr. 495. It is almost certain that the punishment mentioned was prescribed by this law; Hitzig, ibid.
[2494] This conclusion is deduced from the circumstance that Varius was tried under his own law. The charge could not possibly have been that of favoring the Italians, but must rather have been the instigation of the sedition by which his statute was originally carried; Lengle, Sull. Verf. 35.
[2495] Cic. Brut. 89. 304: “Exercebatur una lege iudicium Varia, ceteris propter bellum intermissis.”
[2496] This is an inference from the fact that the court which tried Cn. Pompeius Strabo in 88, and which sat under the Varian law, was composed in accordance with the subsequent Plautian judiciary law (Cic. Frag. A. vii. Cornel. i. 53). A special court was composed in no other way than by the law which established it. In general on the Varian law, see Ascon. 21 f., 73, 79; Val. Max. viii. 6. 4; App. B. C. i. 37; Cic. Tusc. ii. 24. 57. From Appian we learn that the law was passed before the outbreak of the Social War, and Cicero, Brut. 89. 305, informs us that the prosecutions under it continued through the war. The last trial mentioned is that of Cn. Pompeius Strabo in 88, referred to above. See also Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 108; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 493; Mommsen, Röm. Strafr. 198; Long, Rom. Rep. ii. 164 f.; Greenidge, Leg. Proced. 384 f.; Ihne, Hist. of Rome, v. 188 f.; and especially Lengle, Sull. Verf. 32-6, where further sources are cited.
[2497] Cic. Brut. 62. 222. It belongs to about 90; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 693.
[2498] Off. ii. 21. 72. It is an interesting fact that, as this passage shows, Cicero did not object to frumentarian laws on principle, but condemned the Sempronian act because it was burdensome to the treasury.