Titus Livius (Livy) Ab urbe condita 21.63.2

[2] It was here, in his province, that he designed to enter on the consulship, for he remembered his former controversies with the senators, which he had waged when a tribune of the plebs, ¹ and later as consul —in the first place about his consulship, which they tried to annul, and again ² concerning his triumph. ³ He was also hated by the senators on account of an unprecedented law which Quintus Claudius the tribune of the plebs had introduced, despite the opposition of the senate, with the backing of Gaius Flaminius alone of all that body, providing that no senator or senator's son should own a sea-going ship of more than three hundred amphoras burden ⁴ —this was reckoned to be sufficient to transport the crops from one's fields, and all money-making was held unseemly