Note 2064 — Chapter XV · COMITIAL LEGISLATION From Hortensius to the Gracchi 287-134
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Livy xxxiv. 4. 9; Cic. Senec. 4. 10; Orat. ii. 71. 286; Att. i. 20. 7; Fest. ep. 143, including a quotation from Plautus; Tac. Ann. xi. 5; xiii. 42; xv. 20; Frag. Vat. 260 ff. (Ad legem Cinciam de donationibus); Bruns, Quid conferant Vaticana fragmenta ad melius cognoscendum ius Romanum, 112 ff.; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 366; Garofalo, in Bull. dell’ ist. di diritt. Rom. xv (1903). 310-2. In the opinion of Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 191, the law may have resulted in part from the selfishness of the rich, with a view to checking the presentation of gifts among themselves.