Note 2444 — Chapter XVI · COMITIAL LEGISLATION From the Gracchi to Sulla 134-82
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The theory that the court established by the Appuleian law was special is held by Mommsen, Hist. of Rome, iii (1898). 440, n. 1; Röm. Staatsr. ii. 664, n. 1; Röm. Strafr. 198. Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 76, 82, supposes that in his first tribunate he established a special court and in his second by his lex maiestatis a quaestio perpetua. Mühl, App. Sat. 74, also strongly favors the second. The statement of Gran. Licin. xxxiii (?). 4—“Cn. Manilius (for Manlius or Mallius; cf. CIL. i². p. 152 f.) ob eandem causam quam et Cepio L. Saturnini rogatione e civitate est cito (for plebiscito?) eiectus”—Lange applies to the rogation for a special court. The circumstance that the trial of Norbanus took place no less than five years after the enactment of the law and the general tenor of Cicero’s account of that trial (see n. 4 above) point clearly to the existence of a standing court; cf. Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 485; Madvig, Röm. Staat. ii. 275; Klebs, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. ii. 262 f.; Lengle, Sull. Verf. 23-32.
To the same tribune, either in 103 or in 100, may belong the lex Appuleia de sponsu (Gaius iii. 122; p. 298, n. 1 above). In that case the lex Furia de sponsu (Gaius iii. 121; iv. 22; cf. same page above) must belong to the first century B.C.