Afterward as Tiberius found it impossible to reconcile the optimates to his measure, he withdrew the second article and proposed to eject illegal holders without compensation.[2264] When the nobles induced Octavius, a colleague in the tribunate, to veto the bill, Tiberius had him deposed by a vote of the tribes, and then passed the agrarian law without further opposition, unauthorized however by the senate.[2265] The triumviri elected to take charge of the work of distribution were the author of the law, his brother Gaius, and his father-in-law Appius Claudius Pulcher.[2266] As the election of these persons was a violation of the Licinian and Aebutian plebiscites,[2267] a dispensation was probably granted by vote of the people.[2268] When the commission found itself hampered by legal inability to distinguish between public and private land, Tiberius carried a second agrarian law which invested the triumviri with the necessary judicial power for determining what land was public and what private.[2269] It was by virtue of this second enactment that the word iudicandis was introduced into the phrase descriptive of their functions—“iudicandis adsignandis” or “dandis adsignandis iudicandis.”[2270] In the year 129, probably at the time of the election to this office, Publius Scipio Aemilianus brought about the transfer of the judicial function to the consuls. Appian,[2271] our sole authority for the latter act, speaks only of its discussion in the senate, implying that this body rather than the people passed the resolution. In that case the senate must have annulled the second agrarian law on the ground that it was illegally passed; for in no other way could it set aside a comitial statute.[2272] Some land, already delimited, may still have been subject to distribution; but as the consuls avoided the disagreeable function received from the commissioners, the work of assignment came speedily to an end. The agrarian law of Ti. Gracchus fell thus into disuse till it was revived by his brother.[2273]