Note 483 — Chapter II · THE GROWTH OF THE REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION
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The only evidence that they were is furnished by Livy’s account of a lex Manlia of 357 B.C. (Willems Droit Public p. 183). See Liv. vii. 16 (Manlius the consul) “legem, novo exemplo ad Sutrium in castris tributim de vicesima eorum, qui manumitterentur, tulit. Patres, quia ea lege haud parvum vectigal inopi aerario additum esset, auctores fuerunt.”