Smith, William: A smaller dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities (London, 1871)

LEX ACILIA.

226 LEX AURELIA TKIBUNICIA,

comprised very various provisions, relating
to matters essentially different, and in that
case it was called Lex Satura.—The number
of leges was greatly increased in the later
part of the republican period, and Julius
Caesar is said to have contemplated a revision
of the whole body. Under him and Augus-
tus numerous enactments were passed, which
are known under the general name of Juliae
Leges. It is often stated that no leges, pro-
perly so called, or plebiscita, were passed
after the time of Augustus ; but this is a
mistake. Though the voting might be a mere
form, still the form was kept. Besides, vari-
ous leges are mentioned as having been passed
under the Empire, such as the Lex Junia
under Tiberius, the Lex Yisellia, the Lex
Mamilia under Caligula, and a Lex Claudia
on the tutela of women. It does not appear
when the ancient forms of legislation were
laid aside. A particular enactment is always
referred to by its name. The following is a
list of the principal leges, properly so called;
but the list includes also various plebiscita
and privilcgia:—

ACILIA, De Coloniis Deducendis. (Liv.
xxxii. 29.)

ACILIA. [Repetundae.]

AClLIA CALPURNIA or CALPURXIA.
[Amuitus.]

AEBUTIA, of uncertain date, which with
two Juliae Leges put an end to the Legis
Actiones, except in certain cases. This or
another lex of the same name prohibited the
proposer of a lex, which created any office or
power (curatio ac potestas), from having such
office or power, and even excluded his col-
legae, cognati, and affines.

AELIA. This lex and a Fufia Lex, passed
about the end of the sixth century of the
city, gave to all the magistrates the obnun-
ciatio, or power of preventing or dissolving
the comitia, by observing the omens and de-
claring them to be unfavourable.

AELIA, De Coloniis Deducendis. (Liv.
xxxiv. 53.)

AEIiTA SEXTIA, passed in the time of
Augustus (about a. d. 3). This lex contained
various provisions as to the man amission of
slaves.

AEMILIA. A lex passed in the dictator-
ship of Mamercus Aemilius (b. c. 433), by
which the censors were elected for a year
and a half, instead of a whole lustrum.
After this lex they had accordingly only a
year and a half allowed them for holding
the census and letting out the public works
to farm.

AEMILIA BAEBIA. [Cornelia Baebia.]
AEMILIA. [Leges Sumptuariae.]
AGRARIAE, the name of laws which had

relation to the ager publicus. [Ager Publi-
cvs.] The most important of these are men.
tioncd under the names of their proposers.
[Appuleia ; Cassia; Cornelia; Flaminu ;
Flavia ; Julia ; Licinia ; Sempronia ; Ser-
vilia ; Thoria.]

AMBITUS. [Ambitus.]

AM PI A, to allow Cn. Pompeius to wear a
crown of bay at the Ludi Circenses, &c. Pro-
posed by T. Ampius and T. Labienus, tr. pi.
b. c. 64L

AXXALIS or VILLIA, proposed by L. Yil-
lius Tapulus in b. c. 17 9, fixed the age at
which a Roman citizen might become a can-
didate for the higher magistracies. It ap-
pears that until this law was passed, any
office might be enjoyed by a citizen after
completing his twenty-seventh year. The
Lex Annalis fixed 31 as the age for the
quacstorship, 37 for the aedileship, 40 for
the praetorship, and 43 for the consulship.

AXTIA. [Sumptuariae Leges.]

AXTOXIA De Thermensibus, about b. c.
72, by which Thermessus in Fisidia was re-
cognised as Libera.

AXTOXIAE, the name of various enact-
ments proposed or passed by the influence of
M. Antonius, after the death of the dictator
J. Caesar.

APPULEIA, respecting sureties.

APPULEIA AGRARIA, proposed by the
tribune L. Appuleius Saturninus, b. c. 101.

APPULEIA FRUMEXTARIA, proposed
about the same time by the same tribune.

APPULEIA, De Coloniis Deducendis.
(Cic. pro Balbo, 21.)

APPULEIA MAJE_STATIS. [Majestas.]

ATERX1A TARPEIA, b. c. 455. This
lex empowered all magistrates to fine persons
who resisted their authority ; but it fixed the
highest fine at two sheep and thirty cows, or
two cows and thirty sheep, for the authori-
ties vary in this.

ATIA DE SACERDOTIIS (b. c. 63),
proposed by the tribune T. Atius Labienus,
repealed the Lex Cornelia de Sacerdotiis.

ATILIA MARCIA, b. c. 312, empowered
the populus to elect 16 tribuni militum for
each of four legions.

ATILIA, respecting tutores.

ATIX1A, respecting thefts.

ATTNTA, of uncertain date, was a plcbis-
citum which gave the rank of senator to a
tribune. This measure probably originated
with C. Atinius, who was tribune b. c. 130.

AUFIDIA. [Ambitus.]

AURELIA (b. c. 70), enacted that the ju-
dices should be chosen from the senators,
equites, and tribuni aerarii. [Judex.]

AURELIA T1UBUXICIA, respecting the
tribunes.