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Senate intervenants in 50 b.c.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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M. Bonnefond-Coudry has performed a great service by compiling a list of senators who are known to have spoken in the senate (‘intervenants’) in the first century b.c. Yet her list for the year 50 invites a thoroughgoing revision. Beside the rubric ‘supplicatio à Cicéron’ she gives the following list: Cato, Hirrus, Balbus, Lentulus (Spinther?), Domitius (Ahenobarbus or Calvinus), Scipio, Favonius. She also notes that Pompey spoke at a session late in the year (App. b.c. 2.28–9, instead of her reference, 2.29–30), and maintains that Scipio spoke on 1 December (Plut. Caes. 30.4–6).
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2 I give the text of Shackleton, D. R. Bailey (Cambridge, 1977)Google Scholar, with one change in punctuation: his text reads ‘his quod tantum voluntatem ostenderunt, pro sententia cum impedire possent non pugnarunt…’ We should read ‘pro sententia’ with the first clause, the meaning of which it completes.
3 The three ways of participating in debate are evinced at Liv. 27.34.6–7.
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5 The suspension of magistrates from the right to deliver a sententia was established by Hofmann, F., Der römische Senat zur Zeit der Republik (Berlin, 1847), pp. 85–93, 99–104.Google Scholar
6 Since decerno in the statement about Cato should refer to the interrogatio rather than the discessio (‘locutus honorifice non decrerat supplicationes’), we can take ‘decrerant…Domitii, Scipiones’ as a reference to the interrogatio.