ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

two commissions, four of which merely supplemented already founded colonies.Eachcommission founded from one to five colonies, so of approximately sixty four coloniesfounded between 338 and 169, only twenty five colonies are represented: of the coloniesbetween 219 and 169, however, all twenty three known colonies have namedcommissions. 154Therefore, observations about the colonial commissions mentioned byLivy for the half-century period 219 to 169 can be considered complete. Furthermore,the few examples of commissions from the first one hundred years of Romancolonization suggest that the principles were the same as those known for 219-169 BCE;this is indeed conjecture, but reasonable conjecture based on a few solid examples.Another caution pertains to the reliability of the information given by Livy.While many of Livy's documents are probably fictional reconstructions, especially forthe monarchy and early Republic, brief records given at the beginning or end of a year'saccount are probably based on records Livy consulted. 155The lists of colonialcommissioners fall into the latter category, as can be seen by Livy's discussion of thefoundation of Placentia and Cremona, where he mentions two competing sources for thelist of commissioners. 15While Livy books 21-45 give a full list of colonialcommissioners for 219-169 BCE, not all other office lists are full for this period, either inFor a comprehensive list of known commissioners with references see Appendix 1, which was compiledfrom Gargola (1995), pp. 60-63 and nn. 42,45, and 46 pp. 209-210 and Broughton MRR Vol. I and II (1968reprint). The chart also lists references for Broughton's catalog of magistracies held by these men.154 The only exception is the third commissioner for the founding of Tempsa (194). Livy 34.45.3-5 has acorruption in the manuscripts right at the cognomen of one of the commissioners, thus all we know is thename Quintus, which is hardly enough for identification. Cf. Gargola (1995), p 60.155 Beard, North, and Price (1998), p. 9. For example, the formula of the fetial priests in Livy 1.32.6-14was very likely an antiquarian reconstruction (cf. Ogilvie (1965), pp. 127-134), whereas the notice of asupplement of colonists for Venusia (200, Livy 31.49.6) appears after the announcement of a triumph,games, and a land allotment, all of which are the sorts of things recorded in the annates. Cf. Briscoe(1973), p. 11.156 Livy 21.25.1-7, Cf. Polyb. 3.40.3-10, Asc. Pis. P3 C. Gargola (1990) offers a convincing interpretationof the varying names in these commissions.46