Note 2351 — Chapter XVI · COMITIAL LEGISLATION From the Gracchi to Sulla 134-82

Cic. Prov. Cons. 2. 3; Balb. 27. 61; Dom. 9. 24; Fam. i. 7. 10; Sall. Iug. 27; Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 41; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 470. Before the enactment of this law it was possible for the people to grant a province to whomsoever it pleased, whether magistrate or private person. A lex of 131, probably tribunician, had given the province of Asia to P. Licinius Crassus, consul; Livy, ep. lix; Cic. Phil. xi. 8. 18. The Sempronian law did not affect their right. In 107 a plebiscite of C. Manlius granted Numidia, with the conduct of the Jugurthine war, to C. Marius, consul; Sall. Iug. 73; Gell. vii. 11. 2; CIL. i. p. 290 f. On the Sulpician law for granting the conduct of the Mithridatic war to Marius, then a private citizen, see p. 404.