Note 2216 — Chapter XV · COMITIAL LEGISLATION From Hortensius to the Gracchi 287-134

Cic. Fam. viii. 12. 3; 14. 4; Suet. Dom. 8. 3 (Scantinius; Ihm); Juv. ii. 44; Quint. Inst. iv. 2. 69. Voigt, in Verhdl. d. sächs. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. xlii (1890), 273, assigns it to 226 or 225. Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 667 f., places it between 227 and 50. The date 149 rests upon W. W. Fowler’s restoration of the new epitome, 115 f.: “M. Sca(n)ti(ni)us ... am tulit (de) in stupro deprehensi(s).” Quite another matter, however, is referred to in this passage, if Kornemann’s reading is correct: “Sca(n)tius (qui repuls)am tulit in stupro deprehens(us se occidit).” The date of the law, therefore, still remains in doubt.