Cinna then proposed (1) a renewal of the Sulpician plebiscite for the enrolment of the new citizens and the libertini among all the tribes,[2544] (2) a recall of Marius and the other exiles.[2545] Before these measures could be carried, the consul was driven from Rome and deposed from office by an act of the senate on the motion of Cn. Octavius, the other consul.[2546] This is the only certain instance of the abrogation of the civil imperium known to the history of the republic. Cinna returned at the head of an army; and after taking forcible possession of the city, he carried his law concerning the exiles through the assembly either on his own motion or that of a tribune.[2547] As the senate, reversing its earlier action,[2548] had already legalized the Sulpician provision concerning the distribution of the libertini and the new citizens among the thirty-five tribes,[2549] it was without reënactment carried into effect in 84.[2550] The execution of this measure completed the political unification of Italy. Meantime L. Valerius Flaccus, consul suffectus in 86, to relieve the financial distress, passed a law which compelled creditors to satisfy themselves with one-fourth of the amount due.[2551] In 83 M. Junius Brutus, tribune of the plebs, proposed and carried, as a milder measure of relief, a law for the colonization of Capua.[2552] Schulze, C. F., _Volksversammlungen der Römer_, 110-26; Peter, C., _Epochen der Verfassungsgesch. der röm. Republik_, 141-65; _Geschichte Roms_, bks. VI, VII. chs. i-iv; Ihne, W., _History of Rome_, bk. VII. chs. ii-xix; _Researches into the History of the Roman Constitution_, 161 ff.; Long, G., _Decline of the Roman Republic_, I. ch. x-II. ch. xxiv; Lange, _Röm. Altertümer_, iii. 1-146, and see indices s. the various laws; _Die promulgatio trinum nundinum, die lex Caecilia Didia und nochmals die lex Pupia_, in _Kleine Schriften_, ii. 214-70; Mommsen, Th., _History of Rome_, bk. iv; _Röm. Staatsr._ see index s. the various laws; _Ueber das thorische Ackergesetz_, in _Ber. sächs. Gesellsch. d. Wiss._ i (1849). 89-101; Neumann, C., _Geschichte Roms_, I. chs. ii-v; Ferrero, _Greatness and Decline of Rome_, I. chs. ii-v; Greenidge, A. H. J., _History of Rome_, i; _The Lex Sempronia and the Banishment of Cicero_, in _Class. Rev._ vii (1893). 347 f.; Greenidge and Clay, _Sources for Roman History_, 133-70 _B.C._; Strachan-Davidson, J. L., ed. Appian, _Civil Wars_, bk. i, with notes; Weber, M., _Röm. Agrargeschichte_, 151 ff.; Dreyfus, _Lois agr. sous la république Rom._ 77-196; Voigt, M., _Ueber die staatsrechtliche Possessio und den Ager compascuus_, in _Abhdl. sächs. Gesellsch. d. Wiss._ x (1880). 221-72; _Ueber das röm. System der Wege im alten Italien_, in _Ber. sächs. Gesellsch. d. Wiss._ xxiv (1872). 29-90; Babeion, E., _Monnaies de la république Rom._ i. 69-79; Billeter, G.,