Ascon. 57, and 75 C; Dio 36.38.4. Cornelius first proposed a bill to forbid loans to foreign states, but failed to carry it (Ascon. 57-58 C; see below, on Gabinius). His second proposal, to make the people the sole source of exemption from the laws, was vetoed amid disorders, but he carried a compromise proposal requiring a quorum of 200 senators (Cic. Corn. 1, fr. 5, 27, 30-32; Vat. 5; Ascon. 58-59, and 71-72 C; Quintil. Inst. Or. 4.4.8; 5.13.18 and 26; Dio 36.39). Third, he carried a law to compel Praetors to follow their own edicta perpetua (Ascon. 59 C; Dio 36.40.1-2). And among other bills which failed of passage (Cic. Corn. in Ascon. 59 C; Dio 36.38.4-39.2) was a bribery law which at least compelled the acceptance of the milder Lex Calpurnia (see above, Consuls). (Broughton MRR II)