III. XII. Falling Off In The Population

14. IV. I. War Against Aristonicus

15. IV. I. Cilicia

16. Even now there are not unfrequently found in front of Castrogiovanni, at the point where the ascent is least abrupt, Roman projectiles with the name of the consul of 621: L. Piso L. f. cos.

17. II. III. Licinio-Sextian Laws

18. III. I. Capital And Its Power In Carthage

19. II. III. Influence Of The Extension Of The Roman Dominion In Elevating The Farmer-Class

20. III. XI. Assignations Of Land

21. II. II. Public Land

22. III. XII. Falling Off Of The Population

23. IV. II. Permanent Criminal Commissions

24. III. XI. Position Of The Governors

25. III. IX. Death Of Scipio

26. III. XI. Reform Of The Centuries

27. III. VII. Gracchus

28. IV. I. War Against Aristonicus

29. IV. I. Mancinus

30. II. III. Licinio-Sextian Laws

31. II. III. Its Influence In Legislation

32. IV. I. War Against Aristonicus

33. II. III. Attempts At Counter-Revolution

34. This fact, hitherto only partially known from Cicero (De L. Agr. ii. 31. 82; comp. Liv. xlii. 2, 19), is now more fully established by the fragments of Licinianus, p. 4. The two accounts are to be combined to this effect, that Lentulus ejected the possessors in consideration of a compensatory sum fixed by him, but accomplished nothing with real landowners, as he was not entitled to dispossess them and they would not consent to sell.

35. II. II. Agrarian Law Of Spurius Cassius

36. III. XI. Rise Of A City Rabble

37. III. IX. Nullity Of The Comitia

Chapter III

1. IV. I. War Against Aristonicus

2. IV. II. Ideas Of Reform

3. III. VI. The African Expedition Of Scipio

4. To this occasion belongs his oration -contra legem iudiciariam- Ti. Gracchi--which we are to understand as referring not, as has been asserted, to a law as to the -indicia publica-, but to the supplementary law annexed to his agrarian rogation: -ut triumviri iudicarent-, qua publicus ager, qua privatus esset (Liv. Ep. lviii.; see IV. II. Tribunate Of Gracchus above).

5. IV. II. Vote By Ballot

6. The restriction, that the continuance should only be allowable if there was a want of other qualified candidates (Appian, B. C. i. 21), was not difficult of evasion. The law itself seems not to have belonged to the older regulations (Staatsrecht, i. 473), but to have been introduced for the first time by the Gracchans.

7. Such are the words spoken on the announcement of his projects of law:--"If I were to speak to you and ask of you--seeing that I am of noble descent and have lost my brother on your account, and that there is now no survivor of the descendants of Publius Africanus and Tiberius Gracchus excepting only myself and a boy--to allow me to take rest for the present, in order that our stock may not be extirpated and that an offset of this family may still survive; you would perhaps readily grant me such a request."

8. IV. III. Democratic Agitation Under Carbo And Flaccus

9. III. XII. Results. Competition Of Transmarine Corn

10. III. XII. Prices Of Italian Corn

11. III. XI. Reform Of The Centuries

12. IV. III. The Commission For Distributing The Domains

13. III. VII. The Romans Maintain A Standing Army In Spain

14. Thus the statement of Appian (Hisp. 78) that six years' service entitled a man to demand his discharge, may perhaps be reconciled with the better known statement of Polybius (vi. 19), respecting which Marquardt (Handbuch, vi. 381) has formed a correct judgment. The time, at which the two alterations were introduced, cannot be determined further, than that the first was probably in existence as early as 603 (Nitzsch, Gracchen, p. 231), and the second certainly as early as the time of Polybius. That Gracchus reduced the number of the legal years of service, seems to follow from Asconius in Cornel, p. 68; comp. Plutarch, Ti. Gracch. 16; Dio, Fr. 83, 7, Bekk.

15. II. I. Right Of Appeal; II. VIII. Changes In Procedure

16. III. XII. Moneyed Aristocracy

17. IV. II. Exclusion Of The Senators From The Equestrian Centuries

18. III. XI. The Censorship A Prop Of The Nobility

19. III. XI. Patricio-Plebeian Nobility, III. XI. Family Government

20. IV. I. Western Asia

21. That he, and not Tiberius, was the author of this law, now appears from Fronto in the letters to Verus, init. Comp. Gracchus ap. Gell. xi. 10; Cic. de. Rep. iii. 29, and Verr. iii. 6, 12; Vellei. ii. 6.

22. IV. III. Modifications Of The Penal Law

23. We still possess a great portion of the new judicial ordinance-- primarily occasioned by this alteration in the personnel of the judges-- for the standing commission regarding extortion; it is known under the name of the Servilian, or rather Acilian, law -de repetundis-.

24. This and the law -ne quis iudicio circumveniatur- may have been identical.

25. A considerable fragment of a speech of Gracchus, still extant, relates to this trafficking about the possession of Phrygia, which after the annexation of the kingdom of Attalus was offered for sale by Manius Aquillius to the kings of Bithynia and of Pontus, and was bought by the latter as the highest bidder.(p. 280) In this speech he observes that no senator troubled himself about public affairs for nothing, and adds that with reference to the law under discussion (as to the bestowal of Phrygia on king Mithradates) the senate was divisible into three classes, viz. Those who were in favour of it, those who were against it, and those who were silent: that the first were bribed by kingMithra dates, the second by king Nicomedes, while the third were the most cunning, for they accepted money from the envoys of both kings and made each party believe that they were silent in its interest.

26. IV. III. Democratic Agitation Under Carbo And Flaccus

27. IV. II. Tribunate Of Gracchus

28. II. II. Legislation

29. II. III. Political Abolition Of The Patriciate

Chapter IV

1. IV. III. Democratic Agitation Under Carbo And Flaccus

2.

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