page 38 note 1 Vv. 1–19, Bruns', Fontes, 7th ed., pp. 102–3. The inscription as a whole I regard as the extant portion of the lex Mia Municipalis, but of course this is not assumed in the argument without proof.
page 38 note 2 ‘The Professiones of the Heradean Tablet.’ Jour. Rom. Stud., vol. v. pp. 125–137 (1915).
page 38 note 3 In the January number. Mr. Hardy's article came late to my notice. This circumstance, together with the pressure of other duties and the fact that California is at a considerable distance from London, has delayed my rejoinder unduly.
page 38 note 4 ‘O neglegentiam miram! semelne putas mihi dixisse Balbum et Faberium professionem relatam? qui etiam eorum iussu miserim qui profiteretur; ita enim oportere dicebant. professus est Philotimus libertus, nosti, credo librarium. sed scribes et quidem confectum.’
page 38 note 5 ‘Tu uero confice professionem si potes: etsi haec pecunia ex eo genere est ut professione nonegeat. uerum tamen!’
page 38 note 6 Suetonius Caes. 41: ‘Recensum populi nec more nec loco solito sed uiginti trecentisque milibus accipientium frumentum e publico ad centum quinquaginta retraxit: ac ne qui noui coetus recensionis causa moueri quandoque possent, instituit quotannis in demortuorum locum ex iis qui non recensi essent, subsortitio a praetore fieret.’
page 39 note 1 See the text in Bruns', Fontes, pp. 102–3 (7th ed.).
page 39 note 3 Ling. Lat. vi. 90. Cf. v. 18: ‘quorum nomina h. l. ad cos. pr. tr. pl. in tabula in albo proposita erunt.’ Mr. Hardy's error infects his translation.
page 39 note 4 Varro, ibid. vi. 87.
page 39 note 5 I do not mean that this was the only kind of difficulty that would arise, but it seems to have been an old one, Compare the phrase censui censendo, and the case mentioned by Cicero in pro Flacco 79–80. See also Greenidge, , Legal Procedure, p. 182; Marquardt, , Staatverwaltung ii. p. 212 sq. (French edition); and Naber, ‘de Iure Romano,’ Mnemosyne xxiv. 164.
page 39 note 6 Fam. xvi. 23, I.
page 39 note 7 Mr. Hardy is inclined to reproach me for thinking that participation in the free corn was so nearly universal, and yet (if I understand him) he identifies the accipientes with the total citizen population in Caesar's recensus.
page 40 note 1 Mon. Aneyr. iii. 15, 20: ‘Consul tertium decimum (23 B.C.) sexagenos denarios plebei, quae turn frumentum publicum accipiebat, dedi; ea millia hominum paullo plura quam duccenta fuerunt.’
page 40 note 2 Suetonius, Aug. 42, 10.
page 40 note 3 The recensus populi as originated by Caesar is certainly retained by Augustus (Suetonius, Aug. 40).
page 40 note 4 Suetonius, , Caes. 41.
page 40 note 5 Jour. Rom. Stud. iv. 71.
page 40 note 7 In the United States the military census, involving about ten million men, was taken in one day.
page 40 note 8 Caes. 41; Aug. 40.
page 41 note 1 ‘Une statistique de locaux affectés a l'habitation dans la Rome impériale,’ Memoires de l' Académic des inscriptions it belle-lettres (1915). A summary of this authoritative study is given by Magoffin, in the American Journal of Philology, 04, 1917. The words in the text are his.
page 41 note 2 See (e.g.) Six Roman Laws, pp. 166 sqq.
page 41 note 3 One of the few occurrences of this word is in a contract of sale in a Dacian triptich (CIL. iii. p. 947): ‘Conuenitque inter eos uti Veturius Valens pro ea domo usque ad recensum tributa dependat.’
page 41 note 4 xxxviii. 28, 2.
page 41 note 5 xliii. 16, 1.
page 42 note 1 xiii. 33, 1.
page 42 note 2 Shuckburgh (as I afterwards found) recognized the relation with sure insight. See a note in on Cic. Att. xiii. 33, 1, in his translation.
page 42 note 3 Fam. xvi. 23, 1.
page 42 note 4 Greenidge, Roman Public Life, p. 222: ‘All objects of property, corporeal or incorporeal, which constituted pecunia in the later sense of the word, were subject to valuation and taxation.’ I wish to call attention to the three following parallels of pecunia = property. Cic. de Leg. iii. 3, 7: ‘familias pecuniasque censento’ Livy 29, 37, 7 (where the twelve Latin colonies in 204 B.C. sent their census to Rome, showing): ‘quantum numero militum et quantum pecuniaualerent.’ Tab. v. 147: ‘et rationem pecuniaeex formula census…accipito.’ Thus pecunia is the technical word for property in relation to the census.
page 42 note 5 Note on Suetonius, Aug. 37, 4.
page 42 note 6 Ling. Lat. vi. 87.
page 43 note 1 Varro, ibid., vi. 86.
page 43 note 2 Jour. Rom. Stud. iv. 86.
page 43 note 3 Mr. Hardy makes much of the difficulty of posting the professi in the forum. Of a similar objection to Legras' hypothesis he speaks most softly. Merely for the convenience of my theory (and to save the trouble of answering literalminded critics) I could wish the provision had been omitted. With the provision had been omitted. With the help of a little imagination one might suppose that Caesar (having some other matters on hand at this time) determined the principle and left the details to subordinates. It was ingrained in Roman practice that a list of this character should be brought to the public notice. This precedent was followed by those who drafted the legislation, and who in carrying out the main idea did not inquire too closely whether the means were practicable. Our own laws are not always workable, and allowance should always be made for imperfect drafting.
page 44 note 1 The care of the streets before this had been a public charge. Cf. Cic. Leg. iii. 3, 7: ‘Censores…uias…tuento.’
page 44 note 2 Vv. 20–56.
page 44 note 3 Mitteis, , Grundzüge, ii. 90–112
page 44 note 4 Naber, , Obs. de Iure Romano, Mnemosyne, xxiv. 161.
page 44 note 5 Jour. Rom. Stud. iv. 85–87.
page 44 note 6 It seems clear that otherwise Caesar left the local census as he found it.
page 45 note 1 Ibid. p. 90.
page 45 note 2 Fam. vi. 18, 1.
