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

LEX BAEBIA.

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LEGES CORNELIAE,

BAEBIA (b. c. 192 or 180), enacted that
four praetors and six praetors should be
chosen alternately ; but the law was not ob-
served.

BAEBIA CORNELIA. [Ambitus.]

CAECILIA DE CEXSORIBUS or CEX-
SORIA (b. c. 54), proposed by Metellus Sci-
pio, repealed a Clodia Lex (b. c. 58), which
had prescribed certain regular forms of pro-
ceeding for the censors in exercising their
functions as inspectors of mores, and had re-
quired the concurrence of both censors to
inflict the nota censoria. "When a senator
had been already convicted before an ordinary
court, the lex permitted the censors to remove
him from the senate in a summary way.

CAECILIA DE YECTlGALIBUS (b. c.
',62), released lands and harbours in Italy
from the payment of taxes and dues (por-
\toria). The only vectigal remaining after
the passing of this lex was the Vicesima.

CAECILIA DIDIA (b. c. 98) forbade the
proposing of a Lex Satura, on the ground
that the people might be compelled either to
vote for something which they did not ap-
tprove, or to reject something which they did
approve, if it was proposed to them in this
manner. This lex was not always opera-
tive.

CAELIA. [Leges Tabellaeiae.]
CALIGULAE LEX AGRARIA. [Ma-
.milia.]

CALPURNIA DE AMBITU. [Ambitus.]
CALPURXIA DE RLTETUXDIS. [Re-

PETVXDAE.]

CAXULETA (b. c. 445) established connu-
bium between the patres and plebs, which
had been taken away by the law of the
Twelve Tables.

f CASSIA (b. c. 104), proposed by the tri-
' bune L. Cassius Longinus, did not allow a
' person to remain a senator who had been

convicted in a judicium populi, or whose

imperium had been abrogated by the po-

pulus.

CASSIA empowered the dictator Caesar to
add to the number of the patricii, to prevent
their extinction.

CASSIA AGRARIA, proposed by the con-
sul Sp. Cassius, b. c. 486. This is said to
have been the first agrarian law. It enacted
that of the land taken from the Hernicans,
half should be given to the Latins, and half
to the plebs, and likewise that part of the
public land possessed by the patricians should
be distributed among the plebeians. This
law met with the most violent opposition,
and appears not to have been carried. Cas-
sius was accused of aiming at the sove-
reignty, and was put to death. [Ager
.■Publicus.]

CASSIA TABELLARIA. [Leges Tabel-

lariae.]

CASSIA TEREN'TIA FRUMEXTAR1A
(b. c. 73) for the distribution of corn among
the poor citizens and the purchasing of it.

CIXCIA DE DOXIS ET MUXERIBUS, a
plebiscitum passed in the time of the tribune
M. Cincius Alimentus (b.c. 204). It forbade
a person to take any thing for his pains in
pleading a cause. In the time of Augustus,
the Lex Cincia was confirmed by a scnatus-
consultum, and a penalty of four times the
sum received was imposed on the advocate.
The law was so far modified in the time of
Claudius, that an advocate was allowed to
receive ten sestertia; if he took any sum
beyond that, he was liable to be prosecuted
for repetundae. It appeal's that this permis-
sion was so far restricted in Trajan's time,
that the fee could not be paid till the work
was done.

CLAUDIA, passed under the emperor Clau-
dius, took away the agnatorum tutela in case
of women.

CLAUDIA de Sexatoribus, b.c. 218 (Liv.
xxi. C3), the provisions of which are alluded to
by Cicero as antiquated and dead in his time.

CLODIAE, the name of various plebiscita,
proposed by Clodius, when tribune, b.c. 58.

Clodia de Acspiciis prevented the magis-
tratus from dissolving the comitia tributa,
by declaring that the auspices were unfavour-
able. This lex therefore repealed the Aelia
and Fufia. It also enacted that a lex might
be passed on the dies fasti. [Aelia Lex.]

Clodia de Cexsoribus. [Caecilia.]

Clodia de Civibus Romaxis Ixteremptis,
to the effect that " qui civem Romanum in-
demnatum interemisset, ei aqua et igni inter-
diceretur." It was in consequence of this
lex that the interdict was pronounced against
Cicero, who considers the whole proceeding as
a privilegium.

Clodia Frumentaria, by which the corn,
which had formerly been sold to the poor
citizens at a low rate, was given.

Clodia de Sodalitatibls or de Coli.egiis
restored the Sodalitia, which had been abo-
lished by a senatus-consultum of the year
b.c. 80, and permitted the formation of new
Sodalitia.

Clodia de Libertixorvm Suffragils. (Cic.
pro Mil. 12, 33.)

Clodia de Rege Ptolemaeo et de Exsvi.i-
bus Byzaxtixis. (Yell. Pat. ii. 45.)

There were other so-called Leges Clodiae,
which were however privilegia.

COMMISSORIA LEX, respecting sales.

COP^XELIAE. Various leges passed in the
dictatorship of Sulla, and by his influence, are
so called.

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