Remarks On the Roman Conduct of the War); but the statement, that the Romans made that a pretext for their occupation of the island three years after the peace, is ill attested.

Had they done so, they would merely have added a diplomatic folly to the political effrontery.
3.III.II.The War on the Coasts of Sicily and Sardinia 4.III.VIII.Changes in Procedure 5.II.

I.Restrictions on the Delegation of Powers 6.

That this was the case may be gathered partly from the appearance of the "Siculi" against Marcellus (Liv.xxvi.26, seq.), partly from the "conjoint petitions of all the Sicilian communities" (Cicero, Verr.ii.42, 102; 45, 114; 50, 146; iii.

88, 204), partly from well- known analogies (Marquardt, Handb.iii.i, 267).