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_in Verr_. iii. 6. 12 Inter Siciliam ceterasque provincias, judices, in agrorum vectigalium ratione hoc interest, quod ceteris aut impositum vectigal est certum ... aut censoria locatio const.i.tuta est, ut Asiae lege Semp.r.o.nia.

[639] Dec.u.mani, hoc est, principes et quasi senatores publicanorum (Cic.

_in Verr_. ii. 71. 175).

[640] Polyb. vi. 17.

[641] Schol. Bob. p. 259 c.u.m princeps esset publicanorum Cn. Plancii pater, et societas eadem in exercendis vectigalibus gravissimo d.a.m.no videretur adfecta, desideratum est in senatu nomine publicanorum ut c.u.m iis ratio putaretur lege Semp.r.o.nia, et remissionis tantum fieret de summa pecunia, quantum aequitas postularet, pro quant.i.tate d.a.m.norum quibus fuerant hostili incursione vexati (60 B.C.; cf. Cic. _ad Att_.

i. 17. 9).

[642] Varro ap. Non. p. 308 G. Equestri ordini judicia tradidit ac bicipitem civitatem fecit discordiarum civilium fontem. Cf. Florus ii. 5 (iii. 17).

[643] Diod. x.x.xvii. 9 [Greek: _apeilousaes taes synklaetou polemon to Grakcho dia taen metathesin ton kritaerion, tetharraekotos outos eipen hoti kan apothano, ou dialeipso to eiphos apo taes pleuras ton synklaetikon diaeraemenos_.] Diodorus has preserved the utterance in a more intelligible form than Cicero (_de Leg_. iii. 9. 20 C. vero Gracchus ... sicis iis, quas ipse se projecisse in forum dixit, quibus digladiarentur inter se cives, nonne omnem rei publicae statum permutavit?).

[644] Cic. _pro Domo_ 9, 24 Tu provincias consulares, quas C. Gracchus, qui unus maxime popularis fuit, non modo non abstulit a senatu, sed etiam, ut necesse esset quotannis const.i.tui per senatum decretas lege sanxit, eas lege Semp.r.o.nia per senatum decretas rescidisti. Sall, _Fug_.

27 Lege Semp.r.o.nia provinciae futuris consulibus Numidia atque Italia decretae. Cic. _de Prov. Cons_. 2. 3 Decernendae n.o.bis sunt lege Semp.r.o.nia duae (provinciae). Cf. _ad Fam_. i. 7. 10; _pro Balbo_ 27. 61.

[645] Cic. _de Prov. Cons_. 7. 17.

[646] The colonists were to be [Greek: _oi chariestatoi ton politon_]

(Plut. _C. Gracch_. 9).

[647] Liv. _Ep_. lx Legibus agrariis latis effecit ut complures coloniae in Italia deducerentur. Cf. Plut. _C. Gracch_, 6. App. _Bell. Civ_. 1.

23; Foundations at Abellinum, Cadatia, Suessa Aurunca etc. are attributed to a _lex Semp.r.o.nia_ or _lex Graccana_ in _Liber Coloniarum_ (_Gromatici_ Lachmann) pp. 229, 233, 237, 238; cf. pp. 216, 219, 228, 255. It is difficult to say whether they were products of the Gracchan agrarian or colonial law. In either case, these foundations may have been subsequent to his death, as neither law was repealed.

[648] Vellei. 1. 15 Et post annum (i.e. a year after the foundation of Fabrateria, see p. 171) Scolacium Minervium, Tarentum Neptunia (coloniae conditae sunt).

[649] Forbiger _Handb. der Alt. Geogr_. ii. p. 503.

[650] L'Annee _Epigraphique_, 1896, pp. 30, 31.

[651] Plut. _C. Gracch_. 8.

[652] Vellei. ii. 6 Novis coloniis replebat provincias. This may be wrong as a fact but true as an intention.

[653] Vellei. ii. 7.

[654] Plut. _C. Gracch_. 10 [Greek: _Rhoubrion ton synarchonton henos oikizesthai Karchaedona grapsantos anaeraemenaen hypo Skaepionos_]....

_Lex Acilia_ 1. 22 Queive 1. Rubria in. vir col. ded. creatus siet fueritve. Cf. _Lex Agraria_ 1. 59. Oros. v. 12 L. Caecilio Metello et Q.

t.i.tio (_Scr_. T. Quinctio) Flaminino coss. Carthago in Africa rest.i.tui jussa vicensimo secundo demum anno quam fuerat eversa deductis civium Romanorum familiis, quae eam incolerent, rest.i.tuta et repleta est. Cf.

Eutrop. iv. 21.

[655] Mommsen in C.I.L. i. pp. 75 ff.

[656] Mommsen l.c. This was the tenure afterwards called that of the _jus Italic.u.m_.

[657] Liv. _Ep_. ix; App. _Bell. Civ_. i. 24.

[658] Plut. _C. Gracch_. 6; App, _Bell. Civ_, i. 23.