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. 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. IV. II. Tribunate of Gracchus 3. It is in great part still extant and known under the erroneous name, which has now been handed down for three hundred years, of the Thorian agrarian law. 4. II. VII. Attempts at Peace 5. II. VII. Attempts at Peace 6. This is apparent, as is well known, from the further course of events. In op
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