Note 1334 — Chapter VI · THE SENATE
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M. Brutus had gained from the Senate the validation of a bond (syngrapha), by which an exorbitant rate of interest was demanded from the government of Salamis in Cyprus. Bonds of this kind, through which obligations were incurred by provincials at Rome, had been rendered illegal by a lex Gabinia of 67 B.C. (Cic. ad Att. v. 21, 12).