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696 LEX PUI LIL1A. LEGES PUBLIIAE.
having enacted that fifteen persons should be an- been provided by the Lex. In B. c. 457 (Liv. iii.
nually elected by each tribe out of its own body 30) ten tribunes, two from each class, were elected
to be placed in the Album Judicum. for the first time; but it is not said under what
PLAU'TIA or PLO'TIA DE RE'DITU LE- legislative provision. Dionysius (Antiq. Rom. ix.
PIDANO'RUM. (Sueton.hCaes. 5; Gellius,xiii. 3.) 43) gives a more complete account of this Lex.
PLAU'TIA PAPI'RIA. [PAPIRIA PLAU- After Publilius failed in his first attempt to carry
TIA.] his Rogatio, he added a new chapter, which gave
POETE'LIA, B.c. 358, a Plebiseitum, was the the election of the aediles (plebeian) to the Comitir
first Lex against Ambitus. (Liv. vii. 15.) Tributa, and enabled the Tributa to deliberate and
POETE'LIA PAPI/RIA, B.c. 326, made an decide upon any nmatter which could be deliberated
important change in the liabilities of the Nexi. and decided upon in the Comitia Centuriata. From
(Liv. viii. 28.) [NExi.] the time of the enactment of this Lex, sayts DioPOMPEIAE. There were various Leges so nysius (ix. 49) "up to my time, the election of
called. tribunes and aediles was made without birds (au1PoMIPEIA, proposed by Cn. Pompeius Strabo, gural ceremonies), and all the rest of the religious
the father of Cn. Pompeius Magnus, probably in his forms in the Comitia Tributa." Dionysius says
consulship B.c. 89, gave the Jus Latii or Latinitas nothing here of the other matter which the addito all the towns of the Transpadanli, and probably tional chapter contained (ix. 43).
the Civitas to the Cispadani. (Savigny, Iolksscldhsss PUBLI'LIAE LEGES of the Dictator Q.
der Tafel von lHeraclea, Zeitschrift, ix.) Publilius Philo, which he proposed and carried B. c.
_ —_ -- DE AMBITU. [AMBITUS.] 339 (Liv. viii. 12). The purport of these Leges
-. — DE ICMPERIO CAESARI PROROGANDO. is thus expressed by Livy: "tres leges secundis(Vell. Pat. ii. 46; Appian, B. C. ii. 18.) simas plebei, adversas nobilitati tulit: unam nit
- JUDICIARIA. [JunEx.] plebiscita oinnes Quirites tenerent: alteram, sit
---— DER JURE MAGISTRATUUM (Sueton. legum quae comitiis centuriatis ferrentur, ante
Caes. 28; Dion Cass. xl. 56; Cic. ad Att. viii. initum suffragiumn Patres auctores fierent: tertiaml
3) forbade a person to be a candidate for public ut alter utique ex plebe, quum eo ventum sit ut
offices (petitio honoraumn) who was not at Rome; but utrumque plebeium consulem fieri liceret, censor
C. Julius Caesar was excepted. This was doubt- crearetur." The provision of the first lex seems to
less the old law, but it had apparently become ob- be the same as that of the Lex HIortensia, B. c.
solete. 286 "c ut plebiscita universum populuml tenerent "
DE PARRICIDIIS. [CORNELIA DP (Gains, i. 3). Some critics suppose that the first
SICARIIS.] Lex enacted that a Plebiscitum should be a Lex
--'1RIBUNITIA (B. C. 70) restored the without being confirmed by the Comitia Centuriata,
old Tribunitia Potestas which Sulla had nearly but that it would still require the confirmation of
destroyed. (Sueton. Caes. 5; Vell. Pat. ii. 30; the Senate, or, as some suppose, of the Colnitia
Cic. de Leg. iii. 9, 11, in, Verr. Act. i. 15; Liv. Culriata. The Lex Iortensia, it is further supFpit. 97.) [TRIBUNI.] posed, did away with the confirmation of the
- DE VI was a Privilegium, and only Curiae, or, as somie suppose, of the Senate. But
referred to the case of Milo. (Cic. IMi. ii. 9; the expression " omnces Quirites " of Livy clearly
Ascon. and Schol. Bob. in AsgpioZ. Mlilon.) has some reference, and, according to correct inPOPI'LIA. [PAPIA.] terpretation, must be taken to have some reference,
PO'RCIAE DE CA'PITE CIVIUMI or DE to the extent of the effect of a Plebiscitum. There
PROVOCATIO'NE enacted that a Roman citizen is no difficulty in giving a consistent meaning to
should not be scourged or put to death. (Liv. x. 9; Livy's words. The first Lex enacted that PlehisCic. dle Rep. ii. 31, pro Rabir. 3, 4; Sall. Catil. 51.) cita should bind all the Quirites; which means
PO'RCIA iDE PROVI'NCIIS (about B. c. nothing else than that a Plebiscitum should have
198). The passage in Livy (xxxii. 27. "Sumtus the effect of a Lex passed at the Comitia Centuquos in cultumn praetorumn," &c.) is supposed to riata. It is not here said whether the Comitia
refer to a Porcia Lex, to which the Plebiscitum de Tributa could legislate on all matters on which the
Thermensibus refers; and the words quoted by Conitia Centuriata could [PUBLILIA LEX]; and
Cicero ( Verr. ii. 4, 5. "Ne quis emat maucipium") nothing is said as to the dispensing with any form
are taken, as it is conjectured, fromn this Porcia for the confirming of a Lex passed at these CoLex. nmitia. And that Livy did not suppose that the'PUBLI'CIA permitted betting at certain games first Lex contained any regulations as to matter
-vwhich required strength, as running and leaping. of form, is made clear by what he says of the
(Dig. 11. tit. 5.) second Lex, which did regulate the form of lePUBLI'LIA DE SPONSO'RIBUS. [INTER- gislation. This is the clear meaning of Livy's
CESSIO.] vwords: it may not be the true import of the first
PUBLI'LIA LEX was proposed by Publilius Lex; but it is somewhat difficult to prove any
Volro, a tribunus plebis, and enacted B. C. 471. thing about a matter beyond what the evidence
The terms of the Rogatio were "ut plebeii magis- shows. [PLEBuSCITUM.]
tratus tributis conitiis fierent " (Liv. ii. 56). The The simplest meaning of the second Lex, neobject ofthe Lex was to take these elections fisom cording to the words, is, that no Rogatio should be
the Comitia Centuriatal, in which the patricians proposed at the Comitia Centuriata, until the
could determine the result of the elections by the Patres had approved of it, and had given it their
votes of their clients. The Rogatio became a Lex auctoritas. If we knew who were meant by the
after much opposition, the history of which is Patres, the meaning of the Lex would be tolerably
given in Livy. According to some authorities, the clear. It is now generally supposed that Livy
number of tribunes was also increased from two to means the Comitia Curiata, and that their veto
five (Liv. ii. 58); and this must therefore have on the measures of the Comitia Centuriata -was