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

LEGES CORNELIAE.

228 LEX DUODECIM TABULARUM.

Agraria, by which many of the inhabitants
of Etruria and Latiura were deprived of the
complete civitas, and retained only the com-
mercium, and a large part of their lands were
made public, and given to military colonists.

Db Civitate. (Liv., Epit. 86.)

Dk Falsis, against those who forged testa-
ments or other deeds, and against those who
adulterated or counterfeited the public coin,
whence Cicero calls it testamentaria and num-
maria.

De Lxjuriis. [Injuria.]

Judiciaria. [Judex.]

De Magistratibus, partly a renewal of old
plebiscita. (Appian, B.C. i. 100, 101.)

Majestatis. [Majestas.]

Dk Parricidio. [See below : De Sicariis.]

De Proscriptions et Proscriptis. [Pro-
scriptio.]

De Provinciis Ordinandis. (Cic. ad Fam.
i. 9 ; iii. 6, 8, 10.)

De Repetundis. [Repetundae.]

De Sacerdotiis. [Sacerdos.]

De Sicariis et Veneficis, contained pro-
visions as to death or fire caused by dolus
'tialus, and against persons going about
armed with the intention of killing or thiev-
ing. The law not only provided for cases of
poisoning, but contained provisions against
those who made, sold, bought, possessed, or
gave poison for the purpose of poisoning;
also against a magistratus or senator who
conspired in order that a person might be
condemned in a judicium publicum, &c.

SUMPTUARIAE. [leges SuMPTUARIAE.]

Tribunicia, which diminished the power
*f the Tribuni Plebis.

Unciaria appears to have been a lex which
lowered the rate of interest, and to have been
passed about the same time *vith the Leges
Sumptuariae of Sulla.

CORNELIAE, which were proposed by the
tribune C. Cornelius about b. c. 67. One
limited the edictal power by compelling the
praetors Jus dicere ex edictis suisperpetuis.—
Another lex of the same tribune enacted that
no one legibus solveretur, unless such a mea-
sure was agreed on in a meeting of the senate
at which two hundred members were present,
and afterwards approved by the people ; and
it enacted that no tribune should put his veto
on such a senatus-consultum.—There was also
a Lex Cornelia concerning the wills of those
Roman citizens who died in captivity [apud
hostes).

CORNELIA DE NOVIS TABELLIS, pro-
posed by P. Corn. Dolabella, b.c. 47.

CORNELIA ET CAECILIa, b. o. 57, gave
Cn. Pompeius the superintendence of the Res
Frumentaria for five years.

CORNELIA BAEBIA DE AMBITU, pro-

posed by the consuls P. Cornelius Cethegus
and M. Baebius Tamphilus, b.c 181. This
law is sometimes, but erroneously, attributed
to the consuls of the preceding year, L. 1
Aemilius and Cn. Baebius. [Ambitus.]

CURIATA LEX DE 1MPERIO. [Impe-
rium.]

CURIATA LEX DE ADOPTIONE. [Adop-
tio.]

DECEMVIRALIS. [Lex Duodkcim Ta-

bularum.]

DECIA DE DUUMVIRIS NAVALIBUS.
(Lrs\ ix. 30.)

DID1A. [Leges Sumptuariae.]
DOMITLA DE SACERDOTIIS. [Sacerdos.]
DUILIA (b.c. 449), a plebiscitum proposed
by the tribune Duilius, which enacted that
whoever left the people without tribunes, or
created a magistrate from whom there was
no appeal (provocatio), should be scourged
and beheaded.

DUILIA MAENIA, proposed by the tri-
bunes Duilius and Maenius (b. c. 357), re-
stored the old uncial rate of interest [uncia-
rium fenus), which had been fixed by the
Twelve Tables. [Fenus.] The same tribunes
carried a measure which was intended, in
future, to prevent such unconstitutional pro-
ceedings as the enactment of a lex by the sol-
diers out of Rome, on the proposal of the consul.

DUODECIM TABULARUM. In the year!
b.c. 454 the Senate assented to a Plebiscitum,
pursuant to which commissioners were to be
sent to Athens and the Greek cities generally,
in order to make themselves acquainted with
their laws. Three commissioners were ap-
pointed for the purpose. On the return of
the commissioners, b.c 452, it was agreed
that persons should be appointed to draw up
the code of laws (decemviri Legibus scribun-1
dis), but they were to be chosen only from
th- Patricians, with a provision that the
rights of the Plebeians should be respected
by the decemviri in drawing up the laws.
In the following year (b.c. 451) the Decern- '
viri were appointed in the Comitia Centu-
riata, and during the time of their office no
other magistratus were chosen. The body
consisted of ten Patricians, including the
three commissioners who had been sent
abroad : Appius Claudius, Consul designatus,
was at the head of the body. Ten Tables of
Laws were prepared during the year, and
after being approved by the Senate were con-
firmed by the Comitia Centuriata. As it was
considered that some further Laws were
wanted, Decemviri were again elected b.c.
450, consisting of Appius Claudius and his
friends. Two more Tables were added by
these Decemviri, which Cicero calls " Duae
tabulae iniquarum legum." The provision ,