Broughton: Pompeius held command in the northern theatre of war, first at the siege of Asculum, which he captured late in the year (a), and, after the death of his colleague, against the Marsi and other tribes of central Italy (b). He celebrated as Consul a triumph de Asculaneis Picentibus (c), but failed to bring the booty to the treasury (d). A Lex Pompeia confirmed the citizenship of the Cispadane towns in Gaul, the Latin right of the Transpadane ones, and attached native tribes to some of these towns (e). Cato, with unruly and undisciplined troops, attacked the Marsi (f), and after an initial success was defeated and killed (g).

Broughton: Pompeius held command in the northern theatre of war, first at the siege of Asculum, which he captured late in the year (a), and, after the death of his colleague, against the Marsi and other tribes of central Italy (b). He celebrated as Consul a triumph de Asculaneis Picentibus (c), but failed to bring the booty to the treasury (d). A Lex Pompeia confirmed the citizenship of the Cispadane towns in Gaul, the Latin right of the Transpadane ones, and attached native tribes to some of these towns (e). Cato, with unruly and undisciplined troops, attacked the Marsi (f), and after an initial success was defeated and killed (g).

Broughton: Tasked with enrolling the Italian allies as new Roman citizens within sixty days, in accordance with the lex Plautia Papiria (a)

Broughton: Cicero: Or do you deny that my client resided at Rome, when for so many years before he was admitted to the franchise he had made Rome the depositary of all his possessions and all his hopes ? Or did he fail to report himself? No; he did report himself; and, what is more, out of all the declarations made at that time before the board of praetors, his alone was supported by documents which possess all the weight of official sanction. (Arch. 9.)

Broughton: See Legates, and note 9: Held command in Apulia where he reduced a series of towns, including Venusia, and the tribe of the Pediculi (Liv. Per. 75; App. BC 1.52).

Broughton: The praenomen is given in Div. in Caec. 64, and the mention of his condemnation in Arch. 9 identifies the person in both references. See Varro and Fenestella (fr. 18 Peter) in Laetant. Div. Inst. 1.6.14.

Broughton: Oppius' title when in Cilicia in 88 was Proconsul (a). His praetorship therefore dates from not later than 89.

Broughton: A command in Lucania was held by a certain Carbo (a), probably the future Consul, whose praetorship must be dated about this time, while that of his cousin, Carbo Arvina, may be later. No title is preserved in Florus. See Legates, on Carbo Arvina.

Broughton: Killed by a mob of creditors when he gave relief to debtors during the difficulties caused by the Social War (a).

Broughton: See 88, Praetors, and Promagistrates

Broughton: Since he was sixth on the list of Pompeius Strabo's staff at Asculum Cichorius suggests that he was a Quaestor (a).

Broughton: Sisenna attributes to him a bill to add two new tribes (fr. 17 Peter; see below, on Papirius), and a measure to permit soldiers to receive citizenship as a reward for bravery (fr. 120 Peter). Minatius Magius (a) may have received citizenship under this law (Rotondi 491).

Broughton: Roused the mob of creditors who killed the Praetor Semp ronius Asellio (a; see above, Praetors).

Broughton: Münzer (RE) distinguished three L. Memmii active in political life in this period. As the one named above, who was father-in-law of C. Seribonius Curio, was liable to prosecution in 90 (a), his tribunate should be dated in 89 (Niccolini, FTP 223).

Broughton: To this Carbo is attributed the law to introduce the semiuncial as (a). See Val. Max. 9.7.3; Gran. Lic. 39B; and below, on the Lex Plautia Papiria. On the identification of Carbo, see 90, Tribunes of the Plebs and note 8; and Münzer, RE.

Broughton: Along with his colleague Papirius Carbo, he carried a law to grant citizen ship to all citizens of allied states who were resident in Italy at the time, and made a declarati on before a Praetor within sixty days (a), probably superseding other legislation regarding new citizens (see 90, Consuls, on the Lex Iulia; and above, on Calpurnius). He also carried a law that fifteen persons from each tribe, chosen from the senatorial and other orders, should serve as jurymen (b). Vancura (RE 12.1155) and Rotondi (342) would attribute to this Plautius the obscure Lex Plotia Agraria (Cic. Att. 1.18.6), but Niccolini favors a date between 69 and 60 (FTP 436; see 70, Tribunes of the Plebs).