[2605] Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 156.
[2606] Vell. ii. 32. 3; Cic. Verr. i. 13. 37 f.; Pseud. Ascon. 99, 102, 103, 145, 149, 161; Schol. Gronov. 384, 426; Greenidge, Leg. Proced. 436 ff.; Long, Rom. Rep. ii. 419 ff.; Wilmanns, in Rhein. Mus. N. F. xix (1864). 528.
[2607] Tac. Ann. xi. 22: “Lege Sullae viginti creati (quaestores) supplendo senatui, cui iudicia tradiderat.”
[2608] P. 402.
[2609] Dig. i. 2. 2. 32.
[2610] Cic. Rab. Post. 4. 9. It took the place of the lex Servilia of 111; p. 393.
[2611] Schol. Bob. 361. From Plut. Mar. 5 it seems evident that a quaestio de ambitu existed as early as 116; Greenidge, Leg. Proced. 422, n. 3; Lengle, Sull. Verf. 21 f., who has collected the cases de ambitu anterior to Sulla; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 665; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 521; Lohse, De quaestionum perpetuarum origine, praesidibus, consiliis.
[2612] Cic. Verr. i. 13. 39; II. i. 4. 11 f.; iii. 36. 83; Cluent. 53. 147; cf. Mur. 20. 42; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 665; iii. 166. The trial of Pompeius Magnus in 86 for misappropriation of booty by his father in 89 seems to have come before a quaestio de peculatu; Cic. Brut. 64. 230; Plut. Pomp. 4; Lengle, ibid. 40 f. If this supposition is right, the court must have existed before Sulla. A Cornelian law on the subject is not expressly mentioned but may be reasonably assumed.
[2613] Mommsen, Röm. Strafr. 203.
[2614] Cic. Pis. 21. 50; Ascon. 59; cf. Cic. Fam. iii. 11. 2; Cluent. 35. 97; Verr. II. i. 5. 12. This law took the place of the lex Appuleia, probably of 100; cf. Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 165; Greenidge, Leg. Proced. 423, 507.