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

LEX RUBRIA.

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LEX SEMPRONIA.

allusions to this lex, which is sometimes
simply culled the Lex of Otho, or referred to
by his name. It is erroneously supposed by
some writers to have been enacted in the con-
sulship of Cicero, b.c. 63.

RUBRIA. The province of Gallia Cis-
alpina ceased to be a provincia, and became
a part of Italia, about the year b.c. 43.
When this change took place, it was neces-
sary to provide for the administration of
justice, as the usual modes of provincial
administration would cease with the deter-
mination of the provincial form of govern-
ment. This was effected by a lex, a large
part of which, on a bronze tablet, is pre-
served in the Museum at Parma. The name
of this lex is not known, but it is supposed
by some to be the Lex Rubria.

'rtJPILIAE LEGES (b.c. 131), were the
regulations established by P. Kupilius, and
ten legati, for the administration of the pro-
vince of Sicily, after the close of the first
servile war. They were made in pursuance
of a consultum of the senate. Cicero speaks
of these regulations as a decretum of Ru-
pilius, which he says they call Lex Rupilia;
but it was not a lex proper. The powers
given to the commissioners by the Lex Julia
Municipalis were of a similar kind.

SACEATAE. Leges were"properly so called
which had for their object to make a thing or
person saccr. A lex sacrata militaris is also
mentioned by Livy.

SAENIA DE PATRICIORUM NUMERO
AUGEXDO, enacted in the 5th consulship of
Augustus.

SATURA.w [Lex, p. 226, a.]

SCANTINIA, proposed by a tribune ; the
date and contents are not known, hut its
object was to suppress unnatural crimes. It
existed in the time of Cicero.

SCRIBONIA. The date and whole import
of this lex are not known; hut it enacted
that a right to servitutes should not be ac-
quired by usucapion.

SCRIBONIA VIARIA or DE VIIS MUNI-
ENDIS, b.c. 51.

SEMPRONIAE, the name of" various laws
proposed by Tiberius and Cams Sempronius
Gracchus.

Agearia. In b.c. 133 the tribune Tib.
Gracchus revived the Agrarian law of Lici-
nius [Leges Licixiae] : he proposed that no
one should possess more than 500 jugera of
the public land, and that the surplus land
should be divided among the poor citizens,
who were not to have the power of alienating
it: he also proposed, as a compensation to
the possessors deprived of the land on which
they had frequently made improvements, that
the former possessors should have the full

ownership of 500 jugera, and each of theil
sons, if they had any, half that quantity :
finally, that three commissioners {triumvirw
should be appointed every year to carry the
law into effect. This law naturally met with
the greatest opposition, but it was eventually
passed in the year in which it was proposed,
and Tib. Gracchus, C. Gracchus, and Appius
Claudius were the three commissioners ap-
pointed under it. It was, however, never
carried fully into effect, in consequence of
the murder of Tib. Gracchus. Owing to the
difficulties which were experienced in carrying
his brother's agrarian law into effect, it was
again brought forward by C. Gracchus, b.c.123.

De Capite Civium Romanorum, proposed
by C. Gracchus b.c. 123, enacted that the
people only should decide respecting the
caput or civil condition of a citizen. This
law continued in force till the latest times of
the republic.

Frumextaria, proposed by C. Gracchus
b.c. 123, enacted that corn should he sold by
the state to the people once a month at the
price of 6^ asses for each modius, which was
equal to 1 gallon and nearly 8 pints English.
This was only a trifle more than half the
market price.

Judiciaria. [Judex, p. 216.]

Militaris, proposed by C. Gracchus b.c.
123, enacted that the soldiers should receive
their clothing gratis, and that no one shoul
be enrolled as a soldier under the age o
seventeen. Previously a fixed sum was de
ducted from the pay for all clothes and arms
issued to the soldiers.

Ne quis Judicio circujivexiretur, pro-
posed by C. Gracchus, b.c. 123, punished al"
who conspired to obtain the condemnation o
a person in a judicium publicum. One o
the provisions of the Lex Cornelia de Sicariis
was to the same effect.

De Provinciis Coxsularibus, proposed by
C. Gracchus b.c. 123, enacted that the senat"
should fix each year, before the. comitia fo
electing the consuls were held, the two pro
vinces which were to be allotted to the tw
new consuls. There was also a Sempronian
law concerning the province of Asia, whic
probably did not form part of the Lex d
Provinciis Consularibus : it enacted that the
taxes of this province should be let out to
farm by the censors at Rome. This law wa"
afterwards repealed by J. Caesar.

SEMPRONIA DE FENORE, b.c. 193, wa
a plehiscitum proposed by a tribune, M. Sem-
pronius, which enacted that the law {jus)
about money lent {pecunia credita) shoul
be the same for the Socii and Latini {Socii a
nomen Latinum) as for Roman citizens. The
object of the lex was to prevent Romans from