TABULA CONTREBIENSIS
  
( May 15, 87 BC )
 
 
( P. Birks, A. Rodger & J. S. Richardson, JRS, 74, 1984, p. 46 ).
  
 
      Let those of the senate of Contrebia who shall be present at the time be the judges. If it appears, with regard to the land which the Salluienses purchased from the Sosinestani for the purpose of making a canal or channelling water, which matter is the subject of the action, that the Sosinestani were within their rights in selling to the Salluienses against the wishes of the Allavonenses ; then, if it so appears, let those judges adjudge that the Sosinestani were within their rights in selling to the Salluienses that land which is the subject of this action ; if it does not so appear, let them adjudge that they were not within their rights in selling.
      Let those same persons who are written above be the judges. On the assumption that they were the Sosinestan civitas, then, in the place where the Salluienses most recently and officially put in stakes, which matter is the subject of this action, if it would be permissible for the Salluienses within their rights to make a canal through the public land of the Sosinestani within those stakes ; or if it would be permissible for the Salluienses within their rights to make a canal through the private land of the Sosinestani in the place where it would be proper for a canal to be made so long as the Salluienses paid the money which is the value which would have been placed on the land where the canal might be brought ; then, if it so appears, let those judges adjudge that it is permissible for the Salluienses within their rights to make the canal ; if it does not so appear, let them adjudge that it is not permissible for them to do so within their rights.
      If they should adjudge that it is permissible for the Salluienses to make the canal, then, on the arbitration of five men, whom a magistrate (or perhaps the magistracy) of Contrebia shall have assigned from his (or their) senate, let the Salluienses pay money from public funds for the private land where the canal shall be brought. C. Valerius C. f. Flaccus, imperator, conferred the right of judgment.
      They pronounced the opinion : ‘ Whereas the right of judgment is ours, in the matter which is the subject of this action we give judgment in favour of the Salluienses. ’ When this adjudication was made, these were the magistrates of Contrebia : Lubbus of the Urdini, son of Letondo, praetor ; Lesso of the Sirisi, son of Lubbus, magistrate ; Babbus of the Bolgondisi, son of Ablo, magistrate ; Segilus of the Anni, son of Lubbus, magistrate ; . . . , of the . . . ulovi, son of Ux . . us, magistrate ; Ablo of the Tindili, son of Lubbus, magistrate. . . . assius, son of Eihar, the Salluiensian, presented the case for the Salluienses. Turibas, son of Teitabas, the Allavonensian, presented the case for the Allavonenses. Transacted at Contrebia Balaisca, on the Ides of May, L. Cornelius and Cn. Octavius being the consuls.