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 436 REVIEWS OF BOOKS July minoenne' (p. 112), as they are most probably importations from Crete. About renascent Greece he writes much that is illuminating on minor points, and summarizes the development of Hellenic culture and art in an adequate manner. This is naturally the most interesting portion of the book. And its most valuable chapter is that towards the end (chap, vii), Greece in the period immediately before the Persian wars. In this subject M. Cavaignac is evidently specially interested. The whole book is then a sketch, incompletely carried out owing to the war, admirable in intention, but suffering from an uninteresting style and certain obvious disadvantages in dealing with matters outside Greece. H. R. Hall. Ricerche sulla Storia e sid Diritto romano, pubblicate da Ettore Pais e da F. Stella Maranca. I. Dalle guerre puniche a Cesare Augusto. Di Ettore Pais. 2 vols. II. Processi politici e rdazioni internaziorKdi. Di Emanuele Ciaceri. (Rome : Nardecchia, 1918.) It is impossible to withhold a tribute of admiration from the veteran scholar whose works demand an ever-increasing space on the shelves of our historical libraries. We are still awaiting the appearance of the con- cluding volume of the Storia critica di Roma ; but the year which saw the publication of the third of the Ricerche which form a supplement to that work also witnessed the inauguration of a new series of studies, of which three volumes are now before us. For two of these Signor Pais is himself responsible. They contain a number of essays on a considerable variety of subjects — biographical studies of P. Rutilius Rufus and M. Aemilius Scaurus, a series of papers connected with the ethnology and Romanization of north Italy (which contain valuable collections of material), an examina- tion of the Latin Law of Heraclea (the so-called * Lex lulia Municipalis '), and so forth. Amongst the most interesting is an essay on the important inscription discovered in 1908^ which records the grant of civitas (and various military decorations) by Cn. Pompeius Strabo to a troop of Spanish horse dur- ing the siege of Asculum on 18 November, 90 b. c. Signor Pais goes carefully through the long list of names of those who formed Pompeius's * consilium ', amongst whom we find his son, the great Pompey, L. Gellius, the consul of 72 B.C., L. Sergius, probably to be identified with Catiline, and others who may be identified, with varying degrees of probability, with secondary historical characters. He shows that, as we should naturally expect, Pompeius's staff was largely recruited from Picenum and central Italy. It is abo noteworthy that several of those who are known to have joined Sertorius in Spain were at this time serving under Pompeius. But a more interesting question is raised by the statement of the tablet that Pompeius Strabo enfranchised the ' turma SaUiiitana e lege lulia '. Of course it is easy to admit that the ' lex lulia ' may have contained a clause (hitherto unknown to us) similar to the provision of the ' Lex Gellia Cornelia ' of 72 B. c. (one of the proposers of which is, as we have seen, named in the document before us), ' ut cives Romani sint ii quos Cn. Pompeius de consilii sententia singillatim civitate donaverit ' (Cic. Balb. 8. 19) ; but the > This inscription is now to be found in Dessau's last volume (no.
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