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LEX PAPIRIA. LEX PLAUTIA. 695
created the trumviri epulones. (Liv. xxxiii. 42; clalis (Plin. 11. NV xxxiii. 3), one of the various
Cic. de Or. iii. 1.9.) [LICINIA.] enactments which tampered with the coinage.
MA'NLIA DE LIBERTINOtRUM SUF- PAPI'RIA, B.C. 332, proposed by the Praetor
FRA'GIIS' (B. C. 58; Ascon. in Mil. p. 46.) Papirius, gave the Acerrani the civitas without-the
MIAtNLIA DE VICE'SIMA MANUMIS- suffragium. It was properly a Privilegium, but is
SO'RUM. [MANUMISS10.] useful as illustrating the history of the extension of
MA'RCIA probably about the year B.C. 352 the Civitas Romana. (Liv. viii. 17.)
C"'adversus feneratores." (Gaius, iv. 23; Liv. vii. PAPI'RIA, of uncertain date, enacted that no
21.) aedes should be declared consecratae without a
MA'RCIA DE LIGU'RIBUS. (Liv. xlii. 22.) Plebiscitum (isjztssu Plebis, Cic. pro Dom. 49).
MA'RCIA an agrarian law proposed by the PAPI'RIA PLAU'TIA, a Plebiscituen of the
tribune L. Marcius Philippus, B.c. 104. (Cic. de year B.c. 89, proposed by the tribunes C. Papirius
(?/7: ii. 21.) Carbo and M. Plautius Silvanmls, in the consulship
MA'RIA proposed by Marius when tribune of Cn. Pompeius Strabo and L. Porcius Cato, is
B. c. 119, for narrowing the pontes at elections. called by Cicero (pro Archia, 4) a lex of Silvanus
(Cic. de Leiq. iii. 17; Plut. [Mar. 4.) and Carbo. (See CIVITAS; FOEDBRATAE CIVIMEIMMIA or RE'MMIA. [CALUMNIA.] TATES; and Savigny, J7olksschluss der Tafel von
ME'NSIA. This lex enacted that if a woman Nheraclea, Zeitschr1i-i, ix.)
who was a Roman citizen (civis Ronmana) married PAPI'RIA POETE'LIA. [POETELIA.]
a peregrinus, the offspring was a peregrinus. If PAPI'IIA DE SACRAMENTO (Festus,
there was connubiumn between the peregrinus and s. v. Sacraesentum), proposed by L. Papirius, Trithe woman, the children, according to the principle buns Plebis, probably enacted that in the case of
of connubium, were peregrini, as the legal effect of the Legis actio sacramento, the money should not
connubium was that children followed the condition be actually deposited, but security should be given
of their father (liberi seiper patrten sequzntulr). for it. (Pacllta, ITzst. ii. 161, note 101.)
If there were no connubium, the children, ac- PAPI'RIA TABELLA'RIA. [TABELLARIAR
cording to another rule of law, by which they fol- LEGES.]
lowed the condition of the motber, would have PE'DIA, related to the murderers of the Dic,
been Roman citizens; and it was the object of the tator Caesar. (Vell. Pat. ii. 69.)
lex to prevent this. (Gaius, i. 78; Ulp. Fro1g. v. 8.) PEDUCAEA, B.c. 113, a Plebiscitum, seems
ME'SSIA. (Cic. ad Alt. iv. 1.) to have been merely a Privilegium and not a geMETI'LIA. (Liv. xxii. 25; Pint. Fabius, neral law agnainst Incestum. (Cic. de Nat. Deor.
c. 9.) iii. 30; Ascon. in Cic. Mlil. p. 46.)
MINU'CIA, B.C. 216, created the triumviri PESULA'NIA provided that if an animal did
mensarii. (Liv. xxiii. 21.) any danage, the owner should make it good or
NERVAE AGRA'RPIA (Dig. 47. tit. 21. s. 3. give up the animal. (Paul. S. R. 1. tit. 15. s. 1. 3.)
~ 1), the latest known instance of a Lex. There was a general provision to this effect in the
OCTA'VIA. [FP.UMENTARIAE LEGEs.] Twelve Tables (Dirksen, Uehersicht, &c p. 532,
OGU'LNIA, proposed by the tribunes B. c. 300, &c.), and it might be inferred from Paulus that
increased the number of Pontifices to eight and this Lex extended the provisions of the old law
that of the augurs to nine; it also enacted that to dogs. The name of the lex may be uncertain.
four of the Pontifices and five of the augurs should See the note in Arndt's edition of Paulus.
be taken from the plebes. (Liv. x. 6-9.) PETI'LLIA DE PECU'NIA REGIS ANO'PPIA. [SuMTUARIsE LEGES.] TIOCHI. (Liv. xxxviii. 54.)
O'RCHIA. [SUMITUARIAAE LEGES.] PETRE'IA, a Lex under this title, de decimaOVI'NIA, of uncertain date, was a plebiscitum tione militum, in case of mutiny, is mentioned by
which gave the censors certain powers in regu- Appian (de Bell. Civ. ii. 47), according to the old
lating the lists of the senators (ordo senatoriss): editions. But the true reading is n7raplt v'(lqs.
the main object seems to have been to exclude all PETRO'NIA, probably passed in the time of
improper persons from the senate, and to prevent Augustus, and subsequently amended by various
their admission, if in other respects qualified. senatusconsulta, forbade a master to deliver up lis
(Festus, s. v. Praeteriti Senatores; Cic. de Leg. iii. slave to fight with wild beasts. If, however, the
12.) The Lex Ovinia of Gains (iv. 109), if the master thought that his slave deserved such a
reading is right, was a different lex. punishment, he might take him before the authlo.
PA'PIA DE PEREGRI'NIS. [JUNIA DE rities (judex) who might condemn him to fight if
PEREsRINIS.] he appeared to deserve it. (Dig. 48. tit. 8. s. 1 ].
PA'PIA POPPAEA. [JULIAE.] 18. tit. 1. s. 42; Gell. v. 14; Puchta, Inst. i. ~ 107,
A Lex Papia on the manner of choosing the note 101; Savigny, Zeitsclzrift, ix. p. 374, on the
Vestal Virgins is mentioned by Gellius (i. 12); but inscription found on a wall of the amphitheatre of
the reading appears to be doubtful, and perhaps it Pompeii.)
ought to be called Lex Popilia. PINA'RIA (Gaius, iv. 15) related to the giving
PAPI'RIA, or JU'LIA PAPI'RIA DE of a Judex within a limited time. (See Puclhta,
MULCTA'RUM AESTIMATIO'NE (n. c. 430) Inst. i. ~ 53.)
fixed a money value according to which fines were PINA'RIA. [ANNALES LEGES.]
paid, which formerly were paid in sheep and cattle. PLAETO'RIA. [CURATOR.]
(Liv. iv. 30; Cic. de Rep. ii. 35.) Gellius (xi. 1) PLAETO'RIA DE PRAETO'RE Ul.and Festus (s. v. Pecsdelats) make this valuation BA'NO. (Varro, de Lizg. Lat. vi. 5; Censorinus,
part of the Aternian law [ATERNIA TARPEIA], de Die atcali, c. 24.)
but in this they appear to have been mistaken PLAU'TIA or PLO'TIA DE VI. [VIS.]
according to Niebuhr. (Hist. of Rome, ii. p. 300.) PLAU'TIA or PLO!TIA JUDICIA'RIA is
PAPIRIA, by which the as was made semun- mentioned by Asconius (in Cic. Cornel. p. 79) as
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