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7) C. Mamilius Limetanus

He was tribune of the plebs in 645 = 109. He was the proposer of the exceptional law directed against all officers and officials whose connections with Jugurtha posed a threat against Rome. Presumably, he had already had a rough idea of it prior to entering office on 10th December 644 = 110, but he only formalised it and had it passed sometime after that date, around the turn of the year, as a result of some new information that had come to light (Sall. Iug. 40, 1-4. Cic. Brut. 127f. On the timing, cf. Ziegler Fasti tribunorum plebis [Progr. Ulm 1903] 10. Fabricius 5, 3). <40> As the first known bearer of his cognomen, this Mamilius was also the man behind the influential agrarian law which was named after him and his associates (Cic. leg. I 55. Corp. agrimens. ed. Thulin I 1, 5. 1, 27, 5. 33, 16, etc.). <50> Mommsen (Röm. Feldmesser II 226 = Histor. Schr. II 202) had refuted this idea; Cichorius (Röm. Stud. 124) took it up again to some extent with some illuminating justifications, and Fabricius (S.-Ber. Akad. Heidelb. 1924/5, 1. Abh.) cemented it as fact by thoroughly and convincingly going through the evidence (cf. Kroll vol. XII p.2397. Fabricius vol. XIII p. 674f.). Following Cichorius’ conjecture, in 663 = 91 Mamilius was still a member of the agrarian commission set up by M. Livius Drusus (C. M…. in the list of members CIL X 44 with Add. p. 1003. Cf. vol. XIII p.870). <60>

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