ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

of the citizen colonists at heart, even after they had lost their protective powers andsacrosanct status.Not all citizen colonies had a tribune of the plebs on the founding commission,though. The citizen colonies that did not are Tempsa (194), for which again there is acorruption of the third name in the college; Croton (194); Potentia and Pisaurum (184);Parma and Mutina (183); Graviscae (181); and Luna (177). It is important to note thatPotentia and Pisaurum begin the trend of large citizen colonies modeled on the oldconcept of the Latin colony: there were usually 3,000 or more families enrolled in thelarger citizen colonies, so the new community needed its own governing bodies, unlikethe previous, smaller citizen colonies, which only had 300 families and few magistrates. 17Parma and Mutina, Graviscae, and Luna follow this new pattern of large, citizen colonies.Perhaps the change in the size and constitution of the new citizen colonies also negatedthe perceived benefit of having a tribune of the plebs on the board.The last magistracy that appears in the career history of a significant number ofcommissioners is the aedileship. Twenty four of the sixty five known commissionerswere aediles; this means that thirteen of the twenty two attested commissions between334 and 169 had at least one former aedile. There were also a number of priests on thecommissions. Nine of the sixty five commissioners were priests at the time of theircommission, arranged over eight of the twenty two commissions (338-169 BCE). Thepontifices on the colonial commissions from 338 to 169 were M. Valerius MaximusCorvus (Saticula, 313), L. Valerius Flaccus (Placentia, Cremona, and Bononia, 190-189),17 Salmon (1970), p. 104.275