de Cypro, was enacted by the tribune Clodius, in the year of Rome 607, to reduce Cyprus into a Roman province, and expose Ptolemy king of Egypt to false in his regal ornaments. It empowered Cato to go with the praetorian power and see the auction of the king's goods, and commissioned him to return the money to Rome. Another, de Magistratibus, 695, by Clodius the tribune. It forbade the senators to put a stigma or mark of infamy upon any person who had not been actually accused and condemned by both the censors. Another, de Religione, by the same, 696, to deprive the priest of Cybele, a native of Paphlagonia, of his office, and confer the priesthood upon Brotigonus, a Gallogrecian. Another, de Provincia, 695, which nominated the provinces of Syria, Babylon, and Persia, to the consul Gabinus, and Achaea, Thessaly, Macedon, and Greece, to his colleague Piso, with proconsular power. It empowered them to defray the expenses of their march from the public treasury. Another, 695, which required the same distribution of corn among the people gratis, as had been given them before at six asses and a triens the bushel. Another, 695, by the same, de Judicis. It called to an account such as had executed a Roman citizen without a judgment of the people and all the formalities of a trial. Another, by the same, to pay no attention to the appearances of the heavens while any affair was before CLODIA fore the people. Another, to make the power of the tribunes free in making and proposing laws. Another, to re-establish the companies of artists which had been instituted by Numa, but since his time abolished.