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LEGES CORNE i, A.-\. - EG:'S CORNEIT IAE. 68,
Nuv,!!LAaIA. c[FaLswuin~.] attemipts at the crime also came within its piro.
DE PaROSCi}tLn11OSN}:'' PitOSCRI'TIS. [PIto- visions. The punishment was the same as that
scRIPT0o.] affixed by the lex Cornelia. de sicariis (Dig. I. c.),
DE PROVINCIIS ORarNAtmIS (CiC. ad1 Fam1. i. by which must be meant the same punishment
9, iii. 6, 8i, 10). that the lex Cornelia affixed to crimes of the same
I)Dx PARRICIDIO. [See below, ISX DE, SICAx kind. Ile who killed a father or mother, grandatles.] father or grandmother, was punished (more majoD1)E REJECTIONE JUDICUMa (Cic. Vfre'. ii. 31; rum) by being whipped till lie bled, sewn up in a
and Orellii Ozonmasticon). sack with a dog, cock, viper, and ape, and thrown
DE REPET1UNDIS (Cic. 1?'o Jtdabir'. 4). into the sea, if the sea was at hand, and if not, by
DaE SACERDOTIIS. [SACERnorTI.] a constitution of Hadrian, he was exposed to wild
DE SENTENTIA FEBRENIA (Cic. Ipo ClTuent. beasts, or, in the time of Paulus, to be burnt. Tlhe
cc. 20, 27). This was probably only a chapter in ape would appear to be a late addition. The mura Lex Judicirils. derers of a father, mother, grandfather, grandDI)1 SICAntts ET VENExCirc. A law of the mother only were punished in this manner (MoTwelve Tables containled some provision as to dest. Dig. 49. tit. 9. s. 9); other parricides were
homicide (Plin. I. 1V. xviii. 3), but this is simply put to death. From this it is clear that the
all that we know. It is genernlly assumed lex Cornelia contained a provision against parrithat the lawv of Numna Potopilius, quoted by Fes- cide, if we are rightly informed as to the provisions
itus (s. 7. IPtCrici Quaestores), " Si (qis hominem de sicariis et veneficis, unless there wvas a separate
liberum dolo sciens morti dluit paricida esto,";was Cornelia lex de p)arricidiis. As already observed,
incorporated in the Tw'l'elve Tables, and is the law the provisions of those two leges were modified in
of homicide to which Pliny refers; but this canll various ways under the emperors.
not be proved. It is generally supposed that the It appears from the law of Ninta, quoted by
laws of the Twvelve Tables contained provisions Festus (s. v. Pa-ici Quaestores), that a parricida
aIgainst incanltations (n(/urc earien) and poisoi- vwas any one who killed another dolo malo. Cicero
ilrg, both of which offences were also included (pro Rose. Ant. c. 25) appears to use the word ill
llt(ler parricidiunl: the lnmulderer of a parent was its limnited sense, as he speaks of the punishment
sewed up inl a sack (czleus or ce.leus) and thrown of the culleus. In this limited sense there seems
itlto a river. It was under the provisions of some no impropriety in Catilina being called parricida,
old law thal-lt the senate by a consultum ordered the with reference to his country; and the day of
cotisuls P. Scipio and D. Brultls (1n. c. 138) to in- the dictator Caesar's death might be called a parriquire into the lnurder in the Silva Scantia (Silvcc cidium, considering the circumstances under which
Sila, Cic. Blridtts, 22).; The lex Coriselia de si- the name was given. (Suet. Ctbes. c. 388.) If the
cariis et vcnceficis wavs passed in the time of the original meaning of parricida be what Festus says, it
dictator Sulla, ii. c. 8-2. The lex conltained provi- may be doubted if the etymology of the word (pater
sions as to death or fire caused by dolus malus, and caedo) is correct; for it appears that paricida or
and against persons going about armed with the parricida meanlt murderer generally, and afterwards
intention of killing or thieving. The law not only the murderer of certain persons in a near relationlprovided for cases of poisoning, but conltained pro- ship. If the word was originally patricida, the lawv
visions against those who made, sold, bought, intended to make all malicious killing as great an
possessed, or gave poison for the purpose of poison- offence as parricide, though it would appear that
ing; also against a magistratus or senator who parricide, properly so called, was, firom the tilme of
conspired in. order that a person might be con- the Twelve Tables at least, specially punished with
demnied in a judicium publicum, &c. (Compare the culleus, and other murders were- not. (Dig.
Cic. pro Clouet. c. 54, with Dig. 49. tit. 8.) To 49. tit. 8, 9; Paulus, Recejst. Sentent. v. tit.
the provisions of this law was subsequently added 24; Dirksen, Uebersic/it, &c. der Zsc/ii/lfcfel/esetze.
a senatusconsultum against nmala sacrificia, other- Leipzig.)
wise called impia sacrificia, the agents in which SUMTUARIAsE. [SUAITUARIAE LEGEs.]
were brought within the provisions of this lex.,TESTANIENTARIA. [FA.LSuA.]
The punishment inflicted by the law was the in- TRIBuNICIA, whvlichi diminished the power of the
terdictio aqiuae et ignis, according to some modern Tribuni Plebis. (Vell. Pat. ii. 30; Appianl, Be/I.
writers. Marcian (Dig. 49. tit. 8. s. 8) says that Civ. ii. 29; Caes. Bell. Civ. i. 7.)
the puniishlment was deportatio in insulam et UNCIAr IA, appears to have been a lex which
bonorltm adeomtio. These statements are recon- lowered the rate of interest, and to have been
cilable when we consider that the deportatio under passed about the same time with the Leges Sulnthe emperors took the place of the interdictio, and tuariae of Salla. (Festuls, s. v. Unciarit.)
the expression in the Digest was suited to the DE VADIMONIO. [VADIMONIUsI.]
times of the wricers or the compilers. Besides, DE Vi PUBLICA. [Vis PrJBLICA.]
it appears that the lex was modified by various There were other Leges Corneliae, such as that
senatulsconsulta atld imperial rescripts. de Sponsoribus [INTERCESS10], which may bhe
The Lex Pompeia de Parricidiis, passed it the Leges of L. Cornelius Sulla.
time of Ctu. Pompeius, extended the crime of par- There were also Leges Corneliae which were
ricide to the killing (dolo male) of a brother, sister, proposed by the Tribune C. Cornelius about a. c.
uncle, aunt, and many other relations enumerated 67, and limited the Edictal power by compelling
by Marcianus (Dig. 49. tit. 9. s. 1); this enumera- the Praetors Jus dicere ex edictis suis perpetuis.
tionI also comprises vitricus, noverca, privignus, pt-i- (Ascon. in Cic. Cornel. p. 58; Dion Cass. xxxvi.
vigna, patronus, patrons, an avus who killed a 23.) [EDICTUAI.]
nepos, anid a mother who killed a filins or filia; Another Lex of the same Tribune enacted that
Ilit it did not extend to a father. All privies to no one " legibus solverettsr," unless such a measure
tile crime were also punished Xby the law, and was agreed on in a meeting of the Senate wtvhich