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10. III. XI. Separation of the Orders in the Theatre.
11. IV. III. Insignia of the Equites. Tradition has not indeed informed us by whom that law was issued, which rendered it necessary that the earlier privilege should be renewed by the Roscian theatre-law of 687 (Becker-Friedlander, iv, 531); but under the circumstances the author of that law was undoubtedly Sulla.
12. IV. VI. Livius Drusus.
13. IV. VII. Rejection of the Proposals for an Accomodation.
14. III. XI. The Nobility in Possession of the Senate.
15. How many quaestors had been hitherto chosen a
16. III. XI. The Censorship A Prop of the Nobility.
17. We ca
18. II. III. The Senate. Its Composition.
19. IV. VI. Political Projects of Marius.
20. III. XI. Interference of the Community in War and Administration.
21. IV. VII. Legislation of Sulla.
22. II. III. Restrictions As to the Accumulation and the Reoccupation of Offices.
23. IV. II. Attempts at Reform.
24. To this the words of Lepidus in Sallust (Hist. i. 41, 11 Dietsch) refer: populus Romanus excitus... iure agitandi, to which Tacitus (A
25. II. III. Influence of the Elections.
26. IV. II. Vote by Ballot.
27. For this hypothesis there is no other proof, except that the Italian Celt-land was as decidedly not a province - in the sense in which the word signifies a definite district administered by a governor a
The case is much the same with the advancement of the frontier; we know that formerly the Aesis, and in Caesar's time the Rubico, separated the Celtic land from Italy, but we do not know when the boundary was shifted. From the circumstance indeed, that Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus as propraetor undertook a regulation of the frontier in the district between the Aesis and Rubico (Orelli, Inscr. 570), it has been inferred that that must still have been provincial land at least in the year after Lucullus' praetorship 679, since the propraetor had nothing to do on Italian soil. But it was only within the pomerium that every prolonged imperium ceased of itself; in Italy, on the other hand, such a prolonged imperium was even under Sulla's arrangement - though not regularly existing - at any rate allowable, and the office held by Lucullus was in any case an extraordinary one. But we are able moreover to show when and how Lucullus held such an office in this quarter. He was already before the Sullan reorganization in 672 active as commanding officer in this very district (p, 87), and was probably, just like Pompeius, furnished by Sulla with propraetorian powers; in this character he must have regulated the boundary in question in 672 or 673 (comp. Appian, i. 95). No inference therefore may be drawn from this inscription as to the legal position of North Italy, and least of all for the time after Sulla's dictatorship. On the other hand a remarkable hint is contained in the statement, that Sulla advanced the Roman pomerium (Seneca, de brev. vitae, 14; Dio, xliii. 50); which distinction was by Roman state-law only accorded to one who had advanced the bounds not of the empire, but of the city - that is, the bounds of Italy (i. 128).
28. As two quaestors were sent to Sicily, and one to each of the other provinces, and as moreover the two urban quaestors, the two attached to the consuls in conducting war, and the four quaestors of the fleet continued to subsist, nineteen magistrates were a
29. The Italian confederacy was much older (II. VII. Italy and The Italians); but it was a league of states, not, like the Sullan Italy, a state-domain marked off as an unit within the Roman empire.