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The law proposed by Sulpicius and thereafter by Cinna himself, which promised to the new burgesses and the freedmen equality of suffrage with the old burgesses, was naturally revived; and it was formally confirmed by a decree of the senate as valid in law . Censors were nominated for the purpose of distributing all the Italians, in accordance with it, into the thirty-five burgess-districts by a singular conjuncture, in consequence of a want of qualified candidates for the censorship the same Philippus, who when consul in 663 had chiefly occasioned the miscarriage of the plan of Drusus for bestowing the franchise on the Italians, was now selected as censor to inscribe them in the burgess-rolls.
But the numbers on the burgess-rolls give the clearest evidence.
The law proposed by Sulpicius and thereafter by Cinna himself, which promised to the new burgesses and the freedmen equality of suffrage with the old burgesses, was naturally revived; and it was formally confirmed by a decree of the senate as valid in law . Censors were nominated for the purpose of distributing all the Italians, in accordance with it, into the thirty-five burgess-districts by a singular conjuncture, in consequence of a want of qualified candidates for the censorship the same Philippus, who when consul in 663 had chiefly occasioned the miscarriage of the plan of Drusus for bestowing the franchise on the Italians, was now selected as censor to inscribe them in the burgess-rolls.
But the numbers on the burgess-rolls give the clearest evidence.
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