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colony. 132The honor included tangible rewards, such as L. Manlius Acidinus' statue inAquileia, the colony he helped found in 181 BCE, 133 or P. Claudius Pulcher's inscriptionin Cales, which he supplemented in 185. 134Part of the gratitude felt by the colonists for achance at a new home could arise from their circumstances in Rome: scholars postulatethat many of these men were the urban poor who lacked land of their own or veteransIOCwhose family farm had fallen into disrepair from their long absence on campaign.Moreover, the vast migrations of dispossessed farmers, veteran settlements, andcolonization itself probably disrupted the client-patron status quo in Rome, which wouldgenerate interest among the elite to create new clients where they could.By the earlysecond century, the impetus among magistrates to colonize was stronger than the popularsupport in Rome. Especially in the foundations of the maritime colonies in 194, it wasdifficult to find enough settlers to enroll; the commissioners allowed non-Romans tosubmit their names in order to fill the ranks of these citizen colonies. 137 Nonetheless, thecolonists who did emigrate to their new home became the clients of the commissionerswho led them.132 Salmon (1970), p. 104 cites this phenomenon with particular reference to the settlement of the new, largecitizen colonies in the north.133 The base has been found: CIL I 2 621. See also Bispham (2006), p. 81.134 CIL 6.1283 or I 2 .1.32 p. 200.135 Salmon (1970), p. 95. Such currying of popular favor through colonization schemes was the norm infifth and early fourth century foundations, e.g. Antium (467), where the colony was proposed as anappeasement to the people, but they were reluctant to enroll since they preferred land in Rome (Livy 3.1.6,Dion. Hal. 9.59.1-3). With the settlement of Ardea (442), the Roman people were upset that the first choiceof land went to the original inhabitants of the place (Livy 4.11.5). For Cales (334), the notice of thefoundation was shorter, but indicates that the colony was meant as a popular measure (Livy 8.16.14). SeeAppendix 1 for texts of these passages.136 Feig Vishnia (1996), p. 159.137 Livy 34.42.506. Cf. Laffi (2007), p. 23, Feig Vishnia (1996), p. 143, Salmon (1970), p. 99.87
Sometimes, the colonists might have been able to offer political support as in thecase of T. Quinctius Flamininus' bid for consulship:816 KCCI TTEuiToiiEvcov ccTroiKoov els 8uo TTOAEIS, Ndpvsidv TE Kcti Kcovoav,apxcov rjpEBr) Kai oiKicnris. TOUTO 8' OUTOV ETrfjpE udAiora xds Sid UEOOUKai auvrjSEts TOIS VEOIS dpx&S irrrEpfJdvTa, 8nuapxiav Kai crrpaTriyiav Kaidyopavouiav, EU9US aurov inraTEias crrpaTnyiav Kai dyopavouiav, EU0USairrov inraTEias d^ioOv, Kai Ka-rrjEi, TOUJ diro TGOV KAnpouxicov E'XCOVTrpo8viuous. Plut. Flam. 1.4[Administration of justice and military skill] obtained him the office of leaderand founder of two colonies which were sent into the cities of Narnia and Consa;which filled him with loftier hopes, and made him aspire to step over thoseprevious honors which it was usual first to pass through, the offices of tribune ofthe people, praetor and aedile, and to level his aim immediately at theconsulship. Having these colonies, and all their interest ready at his service, heoffered himself as candidate... (Dryden, trans.)There is some corruption of the text here, because Flamininus was on the board oftenmen to divide land in Samnite and Apulian territory among Scipio's veterans in 201-200and on the commission to supplement Venusia in 200, not on a board to found the colony1 TOof Narnia (299, supplemented in 199) and Consa (unknown).His bid for consulshipwas for the year 198 BCE.Although the tribunes of the plebs opposed Flamininus' bidfor consulship at this time, it is interesting to note that Flamininus rightly calculated thatthe support of his colonial and veteran clients would win the election for him. Thissentiment is recorded by Plutarch, a late source for Republican history, so there is somequestion over the authenticity of the idea that mid-Republican colonists could exert anysort of political influence for their patron. Feig Vishnia observes that the voting power ofthe Latin colonists was insignificant because all the Latins who attempted to vote inLivy 31.4 f. for the xviri and 31.49.6 for the commission to found Venusia. See also Briscoe (1973), p.162 and Salmon (1970), n. 180 p. 186 for a discussion of the error in Plutarch and further references onforeign clients.139 Livy 32.7 f. for Flamininus as consul.88
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Sometimes, the colonists might have been able to offer political support as in thecase of T. Quinctius Flamininus' bid for consulship:816 KCCI TTEuiToiiEvcov ccTroiKoov els 8uo TTOAEIS, Ndpvsidv TE Kcti Kcovoav,apxcov rjpEBr) Kai oiKicnris. TOUTO 8' OUTOV ETrfjpE udAiora xds Sid UEOOUKai auvrjSEts TOIS VEOIS dpx&S irrrEpfJdvTa, 8nuapxiav Kai crrpaTriyiav Kaidyopavouiav, EU9US aurov inraTEias crrpaTnyiav Kai dyopavouiav, EU0USairrov inraTEias d^ioOv, Kai Ka-rrjEi, TOUJ diro TGOV KAnpouxicov E'XCOVTrpo8viuous. Plut. Flam. 1.4[Administration of justice and military skill] obtained him the office of leaderand founder of two colonies which were sent into the cities of Narnia and Consa;which filled him with loftier hopes, and made him aspire to step over thoseprevious honors which it was usual first to pass through, the offices of tribune ofthe people, praetor and aedile, and to level his aim immediately at theconsulship. Having these colonies, and all their interest ready at his service, heoffered himself as candidate... (Dryden, trans.)There is some corruption of the text here, because Flamininus was on the board oftenmen to divide land in Samnite and Apulian territory among Scipio's veterans in 201-200and on the commission to supplement Venusia in 200, not on a board to found the colony1 TOof Narnia (299, supplemented in 199) and Consa (unknown).His bid for consulshipwas for the year 198 BCE.Although the tribunes of the plebs opposed Flamininus' bidfor consulship at this time, it is interesting to note that Flamininus rightly calculated thatthe support of his colonial and veteran clients would win the election for him. Thissentiment is recorded by Plutarch, a late source for Republican history, so there is somequestion over the authenticity of the idea that mid-Republican colonists could exert anysort of political influence for their patron. Feig Vishnia observes that the voting power ofthe Latin colonists was insignificant because all the Latins who attempted to vote inLivy 31.4 f. for the xviri and 31.49.6 for the commission to found Venusia. See also Briscoe (1973), p.162 and Salmon (1970), n. 180 p. 186 for a discussion of the error in Plutarch and further references onforeign clients.139 Livy 32.7 f. for Flamininus as consul.88
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