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

LEX LICIXIA.

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LEX OCTAVIA.

LICIXIA DE SODALITIIS. [Ambitus.]

LICIXIA. [Aebutia.]

LICIXIA DE LCDIS APOLLIXARIBUS.
. (Liv. xxvii. 230

LICIXIA JUXIA, or, as it is sometimes
called, Junia et Lieinia, passed in the consul-
ship of L. Licinius Murena and Junius Si-
lanus, b. c. 62, enforced the Caecilia Didia,
in connection with which it is sometimes men-
tioned.

LICIXIA MUCIA DE CIVIBUS RE-
GUXDIS, passed in the consulship of L.
Licinius Crassus and Q. Mucius Scaevola,
b.c. 95, enacted a strict examination as to
the title to citizenship, and deprived of the
exercise of civic rights all those who could
not make out a good title to them. This
measure partly led to the Marsic war.

LICIXIA SUMPTUAEIA. [Leges Sump-

tvariae.]

LIClXIAE, proposed by C. Licinius, who
was tribune of the people from b. c. 376 to
367, and who brought the contest between
the patricians and plebeians to a happy ter-
mination. He was supported in his exer-
tions by his colleague L. Sextius. The laws
which he proposed were : 1. That in future
no more consular tribunes should be ap-
pointed, but that consuls should be elected
as in former times, one of whom should always
be a plebeian. 2. That no one should possess
more than 500 jugera of the public land, nor
keep upon it more than 100 head of large,
or 500 of small cattle. It is related that
Licinius was accused and condemned for vio-
lating his own law. Livy states that Licinius,
together with his son, held 1000 jugera of
the public land, and by emancipating his son
had acted in fraud of the law. The son thus
possessed 500 jugera in his own name, while
his father had the actual enjoyment. 3. A law
regulating the affairs between debtor and cre-
ditor, which ordained that the interest already
paid for borrowed money should be deducted
from the capital, and that the remainder of
the latter should be paid back in three yearly
instalments. 4. That the Sibylline books
should be entrusted to a college of ten men
(decemviri), half of whom should be ple-
beians, in order that no falsifications might
be introduced in favour of the patricians.
These rogations were passed after a most
vehement opposition on the part of the pa-
tricians, and L. Sextius was the first plebeian
who, in accordance with the first of them,
obtained the consulship for the year b. c.
366.

LICIXIA, also called MAXLIA, b.c 19b,
created_the triumviri epulones.

LI VIAE, various enactments proposed by
tee tribune M. Livius Drusus, b.c. 91, for

establishing colonies in Italy and Sicily, dis-
tributing corn among the poor citizens at a
low rate, and admitting the foedcratae civi-
ta tes to the Roman civitas. He is also said
to have been the mover of a law for adul-
terating silver by mixing with it an eighth
part of brass. Drusus was assassinated, and
the senate declared that all his laws were
passed contra auspicia, and were therefore
not leges.

LUTATIA DE VI, proposed by the consul
Q. Lutatius Catulus, with the assistance of
Plautius the tribune : usually called Lex
Plautia or Plotia. [Vis.]

MAEXIA LEX, is only mentioned by
Cicero, who says that Iff. Curius compelled
the patres ante auctores fieri in the case of
the election of a plebeian consul, "which,"
adds Cicero, "was a great thing to accom-
plish, as the Lex Maenia was not yet passed."
The lex therefore required the patres to give
their consent at least to the election of a
magistratus, or, in other words, to confer or
agree to confer the imperium on the person
whom the comitia should elect. It was
probably proposed by the tribune Maonius
b. c. 287.

MAJESTATIS. [Majestas.]

MAMILIA DE JUGURTHAE FAUTO-
RIBUS. (Sail. Jug. 40.)

MAMILIA FIXIUM REGUXDORUM, b.c.
239 or 165, respecting boundaries.

MANILLA, proposed by the tribune C.
Manilius, b. c. 66, was a privilegium by
which was conferred on Pompey the com-
mand in the war against Mithridates. The
lex was supported by Cicero when praetor.

MAXLIA. [Licixia.]

MAXLIA DE VlCESlMA, b. c. 357, im-
posed the tax of five per cent, (viccsima) on
the value of manumitted slaves.

MARCIA, probably about the year b. c.
352, adversus feneratores.

MARCIA, an agrarian law proposed by the
tribune L. Mareius Philippus, b. c. 104.

MARIA, proposed by Marius when tri-
bune, b. c. 119, for narrowing the pontes at
elections.

MEMMIA or REMMIA. [Calvmnia.]
MEXSIA, respecting the marriage of a Ro-
man woman with a peregrinus, declared
the offspring of such marriages peregrini.

MIXUClA, b. c. 216, created the triumviri
mensarii.

XERVAE AGRARIA, the latest known
instance of a lex.

OCTAVIA, b. c. 91, one of the numerous
leges frumentariae which repealed a Sem-
pronia Frumentaria. It is mentioned by
Cicero as a more reasonable measure than the
Sempronia, which was too profuse.