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makes sense only if they were voting together in the same community, thus showing that<br />

there was no question <strong>of</strong> two separate communities with separate citizenships. 81<br />

Building on the conclusions <strong>of</strong> Mouritsen and Jongman, Lo Cascio argued that the<br />

Ciceronian passage does not suggest that the `old Pompeians' were deprived <strong>of</strong> the right<br />

to vote. On the contrary, they enjoyed the same political rights as the new inhabitants <strong>of</strong><br />

the town, the colonists, but the `old Pompeians', superior in number, were penalised by<br />

being divided into a smaller number <strong>of</strong> electoral districts in comparison to those <strong>of</strong> the<br />

colonists. 782 Some <strong>of</strong> the voting districts <strong>of</strong> the inner parts <strong>of</strong> the town were named after<br />

the city gates, <strong>for</strong> the names <strong>of</strong> some <strong>of</strong> the candidates in the electoral inscriptions were<br />

qualified by the adjectives Urbulaneses, Salinienses, Campanienses and Forenses,<br />

which must refer to their voting tribes. 783 Zevi has examined the decorative elements <strong>of</strong><br />

Pompeii and concludes that the inner parts <strong>of</strong> the town do not show signs <strong>of</strong><br />

renovation. 84 This suggests that the same inhabitants continued to live there even after<br />

the establishment <strong>of</strong> the colony. In the suburban area, especially along the via dei<br />

Sepolcri, houses decorated according to the second Pompeian style have been excavated.<br />

It is likely that these areas, along with considerable parts <strong>of</strong> the ager Pompeianus, were<br />

allotted to the colonists.<br />

Names <strong>of</strong> several Oscan candidates appear in the programmala antiquissima: L.<br />

Gavius, M. Herennius, Q. Herennius, C. Occius, L. Olius, L. Paccius, C. Popidius, C.<br />

Uulius, T. Vibius, and they are definitely <strong>of</strong> Oscan origin. 785<br />

It is possible that the same<br />

man, Mamercus Herennius, appears both in an Oscan electoral inscription ST Po 41 and<br />

in CIL IV 48. This confirms the conclusion <strong>of</strong> Lo Cascio and Zevi that there was one<br />

781<br />

Degrassi (1962) 105; Gabba (1973) 605,<br />

782<br />

Lo Cascio (1996) 111-23.<br />

783 Lo Cascio (1996) 120.<br />

784 Zevi (1996) 125-38.<br />

783<br />

For list <strong>of</strong> candidates <strong>of</strong> the programmata antiquissima see Mouritsen (1988) 83-4.<br />

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