Magistrates' early returns to Rome ex provincia between the Middle Republic and the Gracchan age

The issue of magistrates who came back to Rome provides a perspective to deal with the topic of home returns in the Roman world. This paper focuses on magistrates' homecomings which occurred earlier than expected. To this end, a lexical enquiry on Latin locutions ( provincia decedere, revocari ad urbem, redire Romam ex provincia ), in a chronological span between the 1st Punic War and the Gracchan Age until the eve of the tribunate of Gaius Gracchus (264–124 BC), will be conducted.