The Roman assemblies from their origin to the end of the Republic

by George Willis Botsford

[2749] Cic. Mur. 32. 67.

[2750] Cic. Vat. 15. 37; p. 359 above.

[2751] CIL. i². p. 156.

[2752] Cic. Mur. 2. 3; 3. 5; 23. 47; 32. 67; Schol. Bob. 269, 309, 324, 362.

[2753] Cic. Mur. 23. 47.

[2754] Cic. Vat. 15. 37; Sest. 64. 133 (cf. Har. Resp. 26. 56); Schol. Bob. 309.

[2755] Cic. Mur. 23. 47; 41. 89; Planc. 34. 83; Schol. Bob. 269, 362; Dio Cass. xxxvii. 29. 1.

[2756] Cic. Mur. 23. 47. On the law in general, see Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 245; Hartmann, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. i. 1801.

[2757] Cic. Leg. Agr. ii. 9. 24, proves that no such law existed at the beginning of 63, and in 62 its existence is assumed by the Caecilian rogation for dispensing Pompey from its provisions; Schol. Bob. 302.

In 61 M. Aufidius Lurco, tribune of the plebs, attempted a curious modification of the statute concerning corruption at elections, proposing that promises of money to the tribes should not be binding, but that a candidate who actually paid should be liable for life to a payment—apparently annual—of three thousand sesterces to the tribe. His measure failed to become a law; Cic. Att. i. 16. 12 f.; 18. 3; Hartmann, ibid. i. 1802.