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VEX JUNIA VELLEIA. LEX LICINIA. 693
DE PUBLICANIS (Cic. ad Atlic. ii. 16,_pro Cn. was in the womb, and who, when born, would be
Plancio, c. 14, ed. Wrunder; Appian, Bell. Civ. ii. the testator's suns heres, to be instituted heres,
13.) even if he should be born in the lifetime of the
REPETUNDARUIJ. [REPETUNDAE.] testator. It also so far modified the old law,
DE RESIDUIS. [PECUrLATUS.] that a person who by the death of a heres instiDE SACERDOTIIS. (Cic. Ep. ad Bratum, i. 5.) tutus after the testator had made his will, became
DE SACRILEGIS. [PECULATUS.] a heres quasi agnascendo, did not break the will,
SUSITUARIA, passed in the time of Julius Caesar if he was instituted heres. (Gaius, ii. 134; Ulp.
(Dion Cass. xliii. 25) and one under Augustus. Frag. xxii. 19, ed. Bbcking.)
(Gell. ii. 24.) [SIJMTUARIAr LECES.] LAETO'RIA. [CURATOR.]
THEATRALIS (Sueton. Aug. 40; Plin. xxxiii. Sometimes the lex proposed by Volero for electing
2), which permitted Roman equites, in case they or plebeian magistrates at the Comitia Tributa is cited
their parents had ever had a census equestris, to as a Lex Laetoria. (Liv. ii. 56, 57.)
sit in the fourteen rows (quzatuorldecin ordines) LICI'NIA. [AEBUTIA.]
fixed by the Lex Roscia Theatralis, B. c. 67. LICI'NIA DE LUDIS APOLLINAIRIBUS
JULIA ET TITIA (Tnst. 1. tit. 20) empowered (Liv. xxvii. 23).
the praeses of a province to appoint a tutor for LICI'NIA DE SACERDO'TIIS (Cic. Leel.
women and pupilli who had none. (Ulp. Frag. xi. 25).
18.) A Lex Atilia of earlier but uncertain date LICI'NIA DE SODALI'TIIS. [AMBITUS.]
had given the same power at Rome to the praetor LICI'NIA JU'NIA, or, as it is sometimes
urbanus and the majority of the tribuni plebis; and called, Junia et Licinia, passed in the consulship of
the new lex was passed in order to extend the L. Licinius Murena and Junius Silanus, B. c. 62,
same advantages to the provinces. There are some enforced the Caecilia Didia, in connection with
reasons for supposing that there were two leges, a which it is sometimes mentioned. (Cic. pro Sestio,
Julia and a Titia; and among those reasons, is the 64, Phil. v. 3, ad Aft. ii. 9, iv. 16, in Vatin.
circumstance that it is not usual to unite by the 14.)
word et the two names which belong to one lex, LICI'NIA MU'CIA DE CIVIBUS REthough this is done by Cicero (Brut. c. 16, Pro GUNDIS (probably REDIGUNDIS), passed in the
B/albo, c. 21) in speaking of the Lex Licinia and consulship of L. Licinns Crassus the orator, and
Mulcia. Q. Mucius Scaevola Pontifex Maximus, B. c. 95,
DE VI PUBLICA ET PRIVATA. [VIS.] which enacted a strict examination as to the title
VICESIrMeARIA. [VICESIrA.] to citizenship, and deprived of the exercise of
JU'NIA DE PEREGRI'NIS proposed B. c. civic rights all those who could not make out a
126 by M. Junius Pennus a tribune, banished good title to them. This measure partly led to
peregrini from the city. the 5IMarsic war. (Cic. (le 0Q7 iii. 11, Brut. 16,
A lex of C. Fannius, consul n. c. 122, contained pro Balb. 21, 24, pao Sest. 13; Ascon. in C(orel.
the same provisions respecting the Latini and p. 67.)
Italici, for we must assume that there was a Lex LICI/NIA SUiMTUA'RIA. [SUMTUARIAE
(Plut. C. Gracchuls, 12): and a lex of C. Papius, LEGES.]
perhaps B. c. 65, contained the same respecting all LICI'NIA. In the year B. c. 375 C. Licinius
persons who were not domiciled in Italy. (Cic. De Stolo and L. Sextius being elected two of the
Q/7. iii. 11, Braut. 26, 28, de Leg. Agr. i. 4-; Tribuni Plebis, promulgated various Rogationes,
Festus, s. v. Respuhblicas; Meyer, Os-at. Ron?. the object of which was to weaken the power of
Firagm. p. 229, 2nd ed.) the Patricians and for the benefit of the Plebs.
JU'NIA LICI'NIA. [LICINIA JUNIA.] One Rogatio related to the debts, with which the
JU'NIA NORBA'NA of uncertain date, but Plebs was incumbered (Liv. vi. 34): and it proprobably about A. D. 19, enacted that when a Ro- vided that all the money which had been paid as
rman citizen had manumitted a slave without the interest should be deducted from the principal
requisite formalities, the manumission should not in sum, and the remainder should be: paid in three
all cases be ineffectual, but the manumitted person years by equal payments. The Second related
should have the status of a Latinus. (Gains, i. 16, to the Ager Publicus, and enacted that no person
17, 22, &c., iii. 56; Ulp. Frapg. i. xx. 8, xxii. 3.) should occupy (possideret) more than 500 jugera.
[L..TINITAS; LIBERTUS; MANUMISSIO.] The Third was to the effect that no more Tribuni
A special clause in the Lex took away from militum should be elected, but that consuls should
these Latini Juniani, as they were called, the be elected and one of them should be a Plebeian.
capacity of making a testament, taking under a The Patricians prevented these Rogationes from
testament, and being appointed tutores by a testa- being carried by inducing the other tribunes to
ment. Yet they had the other parts of the testa- oppose their intercessio. C. Licinius Stolo and
menti factio (Ulp. Frag. xx. 8). The condition of L. Sextius retaliated in the same way, and would
jhe Latini Juniani is the subject of an essay by not allow any comitia to be held except those for
C. A. von Vangerow, Marburg, 1833; see also the the election of Aediles and Tribuni Plebis. They
remarks of Puchta, Inst. ii. ~ 213, on the date of were also re-elected Tribuni Plebis, and they
the Lex Junia; and also ~~ 217, 218. persevered for five years in preventing the election
DE LiBERTINORUMA SUFFRAGIIS. [CLODIA; of any Curule Magistratus.
MANUMISSIO.] In the year 368, the two tribunes were still
JU'NIA PETRO'NIA or PATRO'NIA(Dig. elected, for the eighth time, and they felt their
40. tit. 1. s. 24). It is doubtful whether this is power increasing with the diminution of the opthe same as PETRONIA, or is another Lex. position of their colleagues, and by having the aid
JU'NIA REPETUNDA'RUM. [REPE;TUN- of one of the Tribuni Mlilitum, M. Fabius, the
DA.-] father-in-law of C. Licinius Stolo. After violent
JU'NIA VELLE'IA, allowed a child who agitation, a new Rogation was promulgated to the
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