Note 2076 — Chapter XV · COMITIAL LEGISLATION From Hortensius to the Gracchi 287-134
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The author may have been the Plaetorius who carried a law concerning the urban praetor; p. 342, n. 1; Karlowa, Röm. Rechtsgesch. ii. 306, thinks it the result of continual war, which while giving young men experience in military affairs, deprived them of the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the management of property.