Note 2496 — Chapter XVI · COMITIAL LEGISLATION From the Gracchi to Sulla 134-82

This is an inference from the fact that the court which tried Cn. Pompeius Strabo in 88, and which sat under the Varian law, was composed in accordance with the subsequent Plautian judiciary law (Cic. Frag. A. vii. Cornel. i. 53). A special court was composed in no other way than by the law which established it. In general on the Varian law, see Ascon. 21 f., 73, 79; Val. Max. viii. 6. 4; App. B. C. i. 37; Cic. Tusc. ii. 24. 57. From Appian we learn that the law was passed before the outbreak of the Social War, and Cicero, Brut. 89. 305, informs us that the prosecutions under it continued through the war. The last trial mentioned is that of Cn. Pompeius Strabo in 88, referred to above. See also Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 108; Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 493; Mommsen, Röm. Strafr. 198; Long, Rom. Rep. ii. 164 f.; Greenidge, Leg. Proced. 384 f.; Ihne, Hist. of Rome, v. 188 f.; and especially Lengle, Sull. Verf. 32-6, where further sources are cited.