Note 1447 — Chapter VII · THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF ROME AND THE INCORPORATION OF ITALY
Reading edition
Liv. xxxv. 7 (193 B.C.) “M. Sempronius tribunus plebis ... plebem rogavit plebesque scivit ut cum sociis ac nomine Latino creditae pecuniae jus idem quod cum civibus Romanis esset.” The enactment was produced by the discovery that Roman creditors escaped the usury laws by using Italians as their agents.