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16.
Interea magna vis accusatorum in eos inrupit qui
pecunias faenore auctitabant adversum legem dictatoris Caesaris qua de modo credendi possidendique intra Italiam cavetur, omissam olim, quia privato usui bonum publicum postponitur. sane vetus urbi faenebre malum et seditionum discordiarumque creberrima causa eoque cohibebatur antiquis
quoque et minus corruptis moribus. nam primo duodecim
tabulis sanctum ne quis unciario faenore amplius exerceret,
cum antea ex libidine locupletium agitaretur; dein rogatione
tribunicia ad semuncias redactum, postremo vetita versura.
multisque plebi scitis obviam itum fraudibus quae toties
repressae miras per artes rursum oriebantur. sed tum
Gracchus praetor, cui ea quaestio evenerat, multitudine periclitantium subactus rettulit ad senatum, trepidique patres
(neque enim quisquam tali culpa vacuus) veniam a principe
petivere; et concedente annus in posterum sexque menses
dati quis secundum iussa legis rationes familiaris quisque
componerent.
Annales ab excessu divi Augusti. Cornelius Tacitus. Charles Dennis Fisher. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1906.
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