Cn. Pompeius Strabo and the Franchise Question

The publication by Gatti in 1908 and 1910 of two bronze fragments containing the record of the gift of citizenship to the equites Hispani of the Turma Salluitana by Cn. Pompeius Strabo in the course of the Social War was welcomed by scholars as providing a valuable piece of contemporary evidence on a period of Roman History for which such evidence is almost entirely lacking. It is perhaps unfortunate that the inscription deals with a subject on which, thanks mainly to Cicero's speeches Pro Balbo and Pro Archia, our information was relatively good, but more can, I think, be extracted from it than was at first thought to be the case, and a few remarks suggested by it may not be out of place

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