Note 1513 — Chapter VIII · THE ORGANISATION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCES
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Cf. Cic. ad Q. fr. i. 1, 11, 33 “nomen autem publicani aspernari non possunt, qui pendere ipsi vectigal sine publicano non potuerint, quod iis aequaliter Sulla discripserat.” The reference is to Sulla’s temporary abolition of the Gracchan principle of collection.