Postumii 2 6 2
Servilii 3 4 2
Quinctii 2 3 1
Furii 2 3 -
Sulpicii 6 4 2
Veturii – 2 -
Papirii 3 1 -
Nautii 2 – -
Julii 1 – 1
Foslii 1 – -
—– – –
70 70 32
Thus the fifteen or sixteen houses of the high nobility, that were powerful in the state at the time of the Licinian laws, maintained their ground without material change in their relative numbers—which no doubt were partly kept up by adoption—for the next two centuries, and indeed down to the end of the republic. To the circle of the plebeian nobility new -gentes- doubtless were from time to time added; but the old plebian houses, such as the Licinii, Fulvii, Atilii, Domitii, Marcii, Junii, predominate very decidedly in the Fasti throughout three centuries.
91
I. V. The Senate
92
III. IX. Death of Scipio
93
III. X. Their Lax and Unsuccessful Management of the War f.
94
III. VI. In Italy
95
III. VI. Conquest of Sicily
96
The expenses of these were, however, probably thrown in great part on the adjoining inhabitants. The old system of making requisitions of task-work was not abolished: it must not unfrequently have happened that the slaves of the landholders were called away to be employed in the construction of roads. (Cato, de R. R. 2 )
97
III. VI. Pressure of the War
98
III. VI. In Italy
99
III. VII. Celtic Wars
100
III. VI In Italy
101
III. VII. Latins
102
II. VII. Non-Latin Allied Communities
103
III. VII. Latins
104
Thus, as is well known, Ennius of Rudiae received burgess-rights from one of the triumvirs, Q. Fulvius Nobilior, on occasion of the founding of the burgess-colonies of Potentia and Pisaurum (Cic. Brut. 20, 79); whereupon, according to the well-known custom, he adopted the -praenomen- of the latter. The non-burgesses who were sent to share in the foundation of a burgess-colony, did not, at least in tin's epoch, thereby acquire -de jure- Roman citizenship, although they frequently usurped it (Liv. xxxiv. 42); but the magistrates charged with the founding of a colony were empowered, by a clause in the decree of the people relative to each case, to confer burgess-rights on a limited number of persons (Cic. pro Balb. 21, 48).
105
III. VII. Administration of Spain
106
III. IX. Expedition against the Celts in Asia Minor
107
III. X. Their Lax and Unsuccessful Management of the War f.
108
II. I. Term of Office
109