It is certain that Gaius carried a law also for reconstituting the quaestio inter sicarios et veneficos,[2336] which had originally been established shortly before 141.[2337] The Sempronian law on this subject contained a provision for the punishment of bribery or conspiracy committed in trials of the kind. The article referred to included the words “Ne quis iudicio circumveniretur,”[2338] a principle repeated as “Qui coisset, quo quis condemnaretur”[2339] in the corresponding article of the Cornelian law which superseded the Sempronian. There was no quaestio for dealing especially with judicial corruption and conspiracy, but the accused was brought to trial before the very court in relation to which his crime was alleged to have been committed.[2340] The provision was directed against the accuser, against magistrates and senators who presided over such courts, and presumably against equestrian jurors who accepted bribes.[2341] We have in an inscription the concluding articles of a criminal law[2342] of this period. It is on a bronze tablet found on the site of the ancient Italian city Bantia, and is called the Latin Lex Bantina to distinguish it from another lex in Oscan on the opposite face.[2343] A reference to the triumviri agris dandis adsignandis, who seem to have been those elected under the Sempronian agrarian law, places the document between 133 and 118. It is concerned with a quaestio.[2344] An attempt has been made to identify it with the lex Iunia repetundarum and to assign it accordingly to 126.[2345] The circumstance, however, that it was passed without the authorization of the senate, and that its whole spirit is anti-senatorial, would lead us rather to the conclusion that it was the work of C. Gracchus at the time of his most bitter struggle with the optimates yet before he had lost control of the comitia. The fragment contains no more than the sanctio—provisions for enforcement of the statute. The beginning of the first extant article is lost, but it must have described the class of offenders to which the article applies, and the nature of the offence. It speaks merely of disabilities imposed on the offender, among which are the following: he must not address the senate or vote in a public trial (poplico ioudicio) or in comitia or receive or give testimony in court or wear the praetexta and soleae in public or be chosen into the senate or remain in it if already a member. The second article provides that if a tribune of the plebs, a quaestor, a triumvir capitalis, a triumvir for assigning lands, or a index appointed under the law itself, or a senator shall with knowledge and malice prepense violate the law or hinder its operation, he shall be liable to a fine, the amount of which a lacuna in the text leaves unknown. The third article provides that a consul, praetor, aedile, tribune of the plebs, quaestor, triumvir capitalis, or triumvir for the assignment of