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Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus, consul in 129 BC, wrote both history and a work on the Roman magistracies (Libri Magistratuum), at least thirteen books long. Bremer prints the passages that cite this work, from Gellius, Macrobius and others, under the third and thirteenth books and books unknown. Peter prints his historical fragments separately. Bremer’s collection, published in 1896, gives under his name only the citations that concern the magistracies and the calendar.
The fragments concern the powers of magistrates and the history of public institutions; one is quoted inside Messalla’s discussion of the auspices of praetors and consuls, preserved by Gellius. The Latin is printed as Bremer gives it. His historical fragments belong to Peter’s collection of the Roman historians. Others report that the decemvirs had a law on intercalation passed, that Romulus instituted market days, and how many tribunes of the plebs were first elected. A passage of Pliny about the books of Numa found on the Janiculum is also included, as in Bremer.
About this edition. The Latin text was transcribed for this library from a public-domain printed edition (edition: F. P. Bremer, Iurisprudentiae Antehadrianae quae supersunt, Pars prior: Liberae rei publicae iuris consulti, Leipzig 1896 (pp. 35–36)), using the scan and text recognition at the Internet Archive; the editor’s notes and critical apparatus are not reproduced. Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.