ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

process involved a careful sorting of all available soldiers.Nonetheless, the commander was familiar with the process either from priorexperience as a military tribune or from oversight of the process. 49It is just thisknowledge that made a military commander ideal to found a colony. The enrollment forearly citizen colonies was 300 families, but for Latin colonies and later citizen colonies, itwas 2,000 to 5,000 families, 50 which would be an equivalent number of settlers to thenumber of soldiers in one or two legions. Livy confirms that L. Scribonius Libo, M.Tuccius, and Cn. Baebius Tamphilus were chosen specifically to enroll colonists for thesupplement to Sipontum and Buxentum in 186 BCE. 51By 186 BCE, these three men hadall been praetors, and M. Tuccius had been praetor and propraetor in Apulia and Bruttiumfrom 190 to 188, the regions where the colonies had been founded. 52Sometimes,however, the enrolling of colonists fell to a different magistrate: for the supplement ofPlacentia and Cremona (190) the consul C. Laelius enrolled the colonists, but was not oneof the commissioners.This is the only example of one of the annual consuls enrollingthe colonists, but it confirms that the leges coloniae were ad hoc arrangements, and thuswere not based on a single, uniform model. Nonetheless, in general, the colonialcommissioners seem to have been chosen for their military experience, which includedThere were at least five commissioners who had been military tribune before their period in the colonialtriumvirate, although there may have been many more whose office was not recorded by Livy. These areM. Valerius Maximus Corvus (Saticula (313) Festus Gloss. Lat. p 458 L, Veil. Pat. 1.14.4), T. QuinctiusFlamininus (Venusia (200) Livy 31.49.6, Plut. Flam. 1.4), Cn. Cornelius Lentulus (Narnia suppl. (199) Livy32.2.6-7), Cn. Octavius (Croton (194) Livy 34.45.3-5), and L. Valerius Flaccus (Placentia and Cremonasuppl. (190) and Bononia (189) Livy 37.46.9-47.2, 57.7-8, Veil. Pat. 1.15).50 Lomas (2004), p. 209.51 Livy 39.23.452 For the observation that the men had been chosen specifically to enroll colonists, see Gargola (1995), p.64.53 Livy 37.46.9-47.2.113