Note 1495 — Chapter VIII · THE ORGANISATION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCES
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Cic. de Prov. Cons. 3, 6. For the weakening of this respect for αὐτονομία in the Ciceronian period and Caesar’s attempt to strengthen it by law (probably the lex Julia repetundarum of 59 B.C.) see Cic. in Verr. iii 89, 207; in Pis. 16, 37 (“lege Caesaris justissima atque optima populi liberi plane et vere erant liberi”).