14.  Thus the statement of Appian (Hisp. 78) that six years’ service entitled a man to demand his discharge, may perhaps be reconciled with the better known statement of Polybius (vi. 19), respecting which Marquardt (Handbuch, vi. 381) has formed a correct judgment.  The time, at which the two alterations were introduced, cannot be determined further, than that the first was probably in existence as early as 603 (Nitzsch, Gracchen, p. 231), and the second certainly as early as the time of Polybius.  That Gracchus reduced the number of the legal years of service, seems to follow from Asconius in Cornel, p. 68; comp.  Plutarch, Ti.  Gracch. 16; Dio, Fr. 83, 7, Bekk.

15.  II.  I. Right of Appeal; ii.  VIII.  Changes in Procedure

16.  III.  XII.  Moneyed Aristocracy

17.  IV.  II.  Exclusion of the Senators from the Equestrian Centuries

18.  III.  XI.  The Censorship A Prop of the Nobility

19.  III.  XI.  Patricio-Plebeian Nobility, iii.  XI.  Family Government

20.  IV.  I. Western Asia

21.  That he, and not Tiberius, was the author of this law, now appears from Fronto in the letters to Verus, init.  Comp.  Gracchus ap.  Gell. xi. 10; Cic. de.  Rep. iii. 29, and Verr. iii. 6, 12; Vellei. ii. 6.

22.  IV.  III.  Modifications of the Penal Law

23.  We still possess a great portion of the new judicial ordinance—­ primarily occasioned by this alteration in the personnel of the judges—­ for the standing commission regarding extortion; it is known under the name of the Servilian, or rather Acilian, law -de repetundis-.

24.  This and the law -ne quis iudicio circumveniatur- may have been identical.

25.  A considerable fragment of a speech of Gracchus, still extant, relates to this trafficking about the possession of Phrygia, which after the annexation of the kingdom of Attalus was offered for sale by Manius Aquillius to the kings of Bithynia and of Pontus, and was bought by the latter as the highest bidder.(p. 280) In this speech he observes that no senator troubled himself about public affairs for nothing, and adds that with reference to the law under discussion (as to the bestowal of Phrygia on king Mithradates) the senate was divisible into three classes, viz.  Those who were in favour of it, those who were against it, and those who were silent:  that the first were bribed by kingMithra dates, the second by king Nicomedes, while the third were the most cunning, for they accepted money from the envoys of both kings and made each party believe that they were silent in its interest.

26.  IV.  III.  Democratic Agitation under Carbo and Flaccus

27.  IV.  II.  Tribunate of Gracchus

28.  II.  II.  Legislation

29.  II.  III.  Political Abolition of the Patriciate

Chapter IV

1.  IV.  III.  Democratic Agitation under Carbo and Flaccus