Note 1260 — Chapter V · THE PEOPLE AND ITS POWERS
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When Plutarch says (C. Gracch. 4) that C. Gracchus gave the right of trying such cases τῷ δήμῳ, this word may include the Plebs. Gracchus at least seems to have banished the ex-consul Popilius by means of a plebiscitum (Cic. pro Domo 31, 82 “ubi enim tuleras ut mihi aqua et igni interdiceretur? quod Gracchus de P. Popilio ... tulit”).