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along the Via Aemilia between Parma and Mutina. 103The client-patron relationships heestablished in the second century benefited his descendent, Aemilius Lepidus (cos. 78BC). 104The region is still known as Emilia-Romagna.M. Baebius Tamphilus was another active colonizer, but he developed hisrelationship with Apulia in a different order than Lepidus or perhaps had priorconnections in the area on which the primary sources are silent. Baebius, a possibletribune of the plebs around 194, might have been the author of a lex Baebia to found thecitizen colonies established that year. 105He was certainly elected to the commission ofone of the colonies founded: Sipontum (194). 1Then, as praetor of 192, Baebius wasalotted Hither Spain as his province, but a popular vote transferred him to Bruttium withthe result that he found himself again in Southern Italy.In 186, when the consulinvestigating the Bacchanalian affair noticed that the colonies of Sipontum and Buxentumwere empty, Cn. Baebius Tamphilus, Marcus' brother, was one of the commissioners tosettle the supplemental colonists. 108 Four years later, Cn. Baebius Tamphilus (cos. 182)canvassed for his brother, Marcus, to win the consulship of 181. 109While M. Baebius'103Livy, 39.55.7-8 (Mutina and Parma), 41.13.4-5 (Luna), and 42.4 (viritane settlement).104Rossignani (1995), p. 61. Cf. Badian (1958), pp. 162-3,275-6; Salmon (1970), p. 186 n. 171; Weigel(1992), p. 9.105 Feig Vishnia (1996), p. 50 and Lintott (1992), p. 34-53. Baebius might have formed the law to found thecitizen colonies founded in 194 (perhaps Sipontum, Tempsa, and Croton), and was then elected to thecommission for Croton. This is in analogy with the law that Q. Aelius Tubero, also tribune of the plebs in194, passed to establish the Latin colonies of Copia/Thurii and Vibo Valentia. Q. Aelius Tubero waselected to the commission for Copia, covered under his law.106 Livy 34.45.3-5.107 Livy 35.20. MRR 1.350.108 Livy 39.23.3-4.109 Livy 40.17.6-8, 18.2. MRR 1.383-4. Unlike Appius Claudius Pulcher's campaigning for his brother,Publius, in 185 (Livy 39.32.5, 6, 13), there was no senatorial objection to Baebius' assistance for hisbrother. Cf. Feig Vishnia (1996), p. 184. Since Cn. Baebius' fellow consul, L. Aemilius Paulus, allowedhim to return to Rome to assist his brother, this has been seen as an alliance between the two families. Cf.81

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