Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 April 2006
1 This paper in various versions has a long history of performance. I am very grateful to members of my audiences and others for discussion and advice, especially John Crook, Jane Gardner, Greg Rowe, and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. I cite the archive of the Sulpicii according to G. Camodeca’s edition with its new abbreviation, TPSulp (see note 5), and the Herculaneum tablets (note 3)as TH. I use RS to refer to Roman Statutes (ed. M. Crawford, London, 1996))