Part 40 (2/2)

[1217] [Cic.] _ad Herenn_. i. 15, 25, iv. 24. 34; _de Rep_. i. 3. 6; _pro Balbo_ II. 28.

[1218] Cic. _de Orat_. iii. 8. 29; _Brut_. 35. 132.

[1219] Cicero, in speaking of the successive defeats of Catulus at the polls, says Praeposuisse (populum Romanum) Q. Catulo, summa in familia nato, sapientissimo et sanctissimo viro, non dico C. Serranum, stultissimum hominem, (fuit enim tamen n.o.bilis,) non C. Fimbriam, novum hominem, (fuit enim et animi satis magni et consilii,) sed Cn. Mallium, non solum ign.o.bilem, verum sine virtute, sine ingenio, vita etiam contempta ac sordida (_pro Planc_. 5. 12).

[1220] Val. Max. ii. 3. 2. The changes introduced into the military system by Rutilius will be explained in the next chapter.

[1221] Ulp. in _Dig_. x.x.xviii. 2, i. i. Mommsen (_Staatsr_. iii. p. 433) thinks that the consul of 105 is the ”praetor Rutilius” of Ulpian's account.

[1222] Gaius iv, 35 (Praetor Publius Rutilius), qui et bonorum venditionem introduxisse dicitur. See Bethmann-Hollweg _Civilprozess_ ii. p. 671. Here again the consul of 105 is probably meant.

[1223] Cic. _Brut_. 30. 113, 114.

[1224] The disaster at Arausio took place on 6th October (Plut. _Luc_.

27). The consuls for the next year may not yet have been elected, as there was at this time no fixed date for the consular Comitia. Cf.

p. 364 and see Sall. _Jug_. 114.

[1225] Cic. _Brut_. 34. 129; _de Orat_. ii. 22. 91.

[1226] Liv. _Ep_. lvi. (see the next note). For the probable date of this enactment (151 B.C.) see Mommsen _Staatsrecht_ i. p. 521.

[1227] Liv. _Ep_. lvi c.u.m bellum Numantinum vitio duc.u.m non sine pudore publico duraret, delatus est ultro Scipioni Africano a senatu populoque Romano consulatus; quem c.u.m illi capere ob legem, quae vetabat quemquam iterum consulem fieri, non liceret, sicut priori consulatu, legibus solutus est.

[1228] Plut. _Mar_. 12 [Greek: _kai to deuteron hypatos apedeichthae, tou men nomou koluontos aponta kai mae dialiponta chronon horismenon authis aireisthai, tou de daemou tous antilegontas ekbalontos_.]

Plutarch adds that the people recalled the dispensation granted to Scipio when the annihilation of the Carthaginian power was planned.

This is perhaps a mistaken reference to the dispensation granted to Scipio in the Numantine war. See Liv. _Ep_. lvi. (quoted in the last note); Cic. _pro Leg. Man_. 20. 60 and Mommsen _Staatsr_. l.c. As to the irregularity involved in Marius's absence, it is questionable whether Plutarch is right in supposing that a personal _professio_ was required at this time. See Mommsen _Staatsr_. i. p. 504. Possibly the irregularity consisted in the fact that there had been no formal candidature at all. Other references to this election of Marius are to be found in Sall. _Jug_. 114; Vellei. ii. 12; Liv. _Ep_. lxvii.

[1229] Sall. _Jug_. 114, Marius consul absens factus est, et ei decreta provincia Gallia.

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