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

LEX FABIA.

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LEGES JULIAE.

which allowed no connubium between the
Patres and the Plebs is referred to the
Eleventh Table. The whole Twelve Tables
were first published in the consulship of L.
Valerius and M. Horatius after the downfall
of the Decemviri, b.c. 449. This the first
attempt to make a code remained also the
only attempt for near one thousand years,
until the legislation of Justinian. The
Twelve Tables are mentioned by the Roman
Writers under a great variety of names :
Leges Dccemvirales, Lex Deccmriralis, Leges
XII., Lex XII. tabula/rum or Duodecim, and
sometimes they are referred to under the
names of Leges and Lex simply, as being
pre-eminently The Law. The Laws were
cut on bronze tablets and put up in a public
place. They contained matters relating both
to the Jus Publicum and the Jus Privatum
{Jons publici privatique juris). The Jus
Publicum underwent great changes in the
course of years, but the Jus Privatum of the
Twelve Tables continued to be the funda-
mental law of the Roman State. The Roman
writers speak in high terms of the precision
of the enactments contained in the Twelve
Tables, and of the propriety of the language
in which they were expressed.

FABIA I)E PLAGIO. [Plagium.]
FABIA DE XUMERO SECTATORUM.
(Cic. pro Murena, 34.)
FALCIDIA. [Lex Voconia.]
FANNIA. [Leges Sumptuariae.]
FANNIA. [Junia de Peregrinis.]
FLAMINIA was an Agraria Lex for the
distribution of lands in Picenum, proposed by
the tribune C. Flaminius, in b.c. 228 accord-
ing to Cicero, or in b.c. 232 according to
Polybius. The latter date is the more pro-
bable.

FLAVIA AGRARIA, b. c. 60, for the dis-
tribution of lands among Pompey's soldiers,
proposed by the tribune L. Flavius, who
committed the consul Caecilius Metellus to
prison for opposing it.

FRUMENTARIAE. Various leges were so
called which had for their object the distri-
bution of grain among the people, either at
a low price or gratuitously. [Frcmentariae
Leges, p. 182.] _

FUFIA DE RELIGIOXE, b.c. 61, was a
privilegium which related to the trial of
Clodius.

FUFIA JtJDICIARIA. [Judex, p. 217.]
FURIA or FUSIA CAXIXIA limited the
number of slaves to be manumitted by testa-
ment.

FURIA or FUSIA TESTAMEXTARIA,
enacted that a testator should not give more
than three-fourths of his property in legacies,
■thus securing one-fourth to the heres.

GABIXIA TABELLARIA. [Leges Tabel-
lariae.] There were various Gabiniae Leges,
some of which were privilegia, as that for
conferring extraordinary power on Cn. Pom-
peius for conducting the war against the
pirates. A Gabinia Lex, b. c. 58, forbade all
loans of money at Rome to legationes from
foreign parts. The object of the lex was to
prevent money being borrowed for the pur-
pose of bribing the senators at Rome.

GALLIAE CISALPIXAE. [Rubria.]

GELLIA CORXELIA, b.c. 72, which gave
to Cn. Pompeius the extraordinary power of
conferring the Roman civitas on Spaniards in
Spain, with the advice of his consilium.

GEXUCIA, b. c 341, forbade altogether
the taking of interest for the use of money.

HIEROXlCA was not a lex properly so
called. Before the Roman conquest of Sicily,
the payment of the tenths of wine, oil, and
other produce had been fixed by Iliero; and
the Roman quaestors, in letting these tenths
to farm, followed the practice which they
found established.

IIORATIAE ET VALERIAE. [Leges Va-
leriae.]

HORTEXSIA DE PLEBISCITIS. [Leges
Publiliae ; Pi.f.biscitum.] Another Lex
Hortensia enacted that the nundinae, which
had hitherto been feriae, should be dies fasti.
This was done for the purpose of accoiriA,*,—
dating the inhabitants of the country.

ICILIA, b. c. 456, by which the Aventinus
was assigned to the plebs. This was the first
instance of the ager publicus being assigned
to the plebs. Another Lex Icilia, proposed
by the tribune Sp. Icilius, b. c. 470, had for
its object to prevent all interruption to the
tribunes while acting in the discharge of
their duties. In some cases the penalty was
death.

JULIAE. Most of the Juliae Leges were
passed in the time of C. Julius Caesar and
Augustus.

De Adulteriis. [Adulterium.]

Agraria, b. c. 59, in the consulship of
Caesar, for distributing the ager publicus in
Campania among 20,000 poor citizens, who had
each three children or more.

De Ambitu. [Ambitus.]

De Bonis Cedendis. This lex provided
that a debtor might escape all personal mo-
lestation from his creditors by giving up his
property to them for the purpose of sale and
distribution. It is doubtful if this lex was
passed in the time of Julius Caesar or of
Augustus, though probably of the former.

De Caede et Vexeficio (Suet. Par. 33),
perhaps the same as the Lex De Vi Publica.

De Civitate was passed in the consul-
ship of L. Julius Caesar and P. Rutilius