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exen more popular than those of Gracchus. Ihe Sillii tribuni plebis related to Publica Pondera.
legislation about the Roman Public Land requires (Festus, Publica Pondera, where the Lex is
a history in itself. given; and the notes in the Delphin edition.)
DE CAPITE CIVIUM, proposed by C. Gracchus S1LVA'NI ET CARBO'NIS. [PAPIRIA
X3. c. 123, enacted that the caput or condition of PLAUTIA.]
a Roman citizen could not be affected without a SULPI'CIAE, proposed by the tribune P.
trial and vote of the people. (Cic. pro Rabiln. c. 4; Sulpicius Rufus, a supporter of Marius, B. c. 883,
and Cicero's disingenuous exposition, In Cat. iv. 5). enacted the recal of the exiles, the distribution of
Plutarch (C. ~,~acchus, 4) appears to allude to this the new citizens and the libertini among the thirtyLex; but if he does, he has mistaken its purport. five tribes, that the command in the Mithridatic
FRItMENTARIA. [FRUMENTARIAE LEGES.] war should be taken from Sulla and given to
JuDlcIARIA proposed by C. Gracchus, had for its Marius, and that a Senator should not contract
object to deprive the senate of the power which debt to the amount of more than 2000 denarii.
they derived from supplying the Judices in Judicia (Plut. Sutl. 8.) The last enactment miay have
Publica from their body (Plut. 0. Gracchuss, 5). been intended to expel persons from the senate
Plutarch's account of this Lex is probably incor- who should get in debt. All these Leges were
rect. Compare Appian (Bell. Civ. i. 22); and Ju- repealed by Sulla. (App. Bell. Civ. i. 55, 59;
sERx, p. 649, b. Liv. Epit. 77; Vell. Pat. ii. 18.)
DE PROVINCIIS CONSULARIB-IUS proposed by C. SULPI'CIA SEMPRO'NIA, B. c. 304. No
Gracchus, n. c. 123, enacted, that in every year, name is given to this Lex by Livy (ix. 4G6), but it
before the Comitia for electing the consuls, the was probably proposed by the consuls. Itprevented
senate should determine the two provinces which the dedicatio of a templum or altar without the
the consuls should have; and the consuls were to consent of the senate or a majority of the tribunes.
settle between themselves by lot, or otherwise, (Compare Gaius, ii. 5-7.)
which province each should have. (Sallust, JuY. SUMTUA'RIAE. [SUaMTUARIAF LEGES.]
c. 27, and the note of Cortius; Cic. de Prov. Cons. TABELLA'RIA E. [TABELLARIAE LEGES.]
c. 2.) TARPE'IA ATE'RNIA. [ATERNIA TAdThere may have been other measures proposed PEIA.]
and carried by C. Gracchus; but it is not easy to TERENTItLIA, proposed by the tribune C.
distinguish between all that was proposed and Terentilius, B. c. 462, but not carried, was a rocarried, and what was simply proposed. The gatio which had for its object an amendment of the
Lives of Tiberius and C. Gracchus by Plutarch, constitution, though in form it only attempted a
translated with notes by G. Long, give some in- limitation of the Imnperium Consulare. (Liv. iii. 9,
formation on the legislation of the Gracchi, which 10, 31; Dionys. Romn. Asntiq. x. 1, &c.) This
should be compared with Appian. (Bell. Civ. i. rogatio probably led to the subsequent legislation
10, &c.) of the Decemviri.
SEMPRO'NIA DE FE'NORE,. c. 193, TESTAMENTA'RIAE. Various leges, such
was a Plebiscitum proposed by a tribune M. Sem- as the Cornelia, Falcidia, Furia, and Voconia, repronius (Liv. xxxv. 7), which enacted that the law gulated testamentary dispositions.
(juls) about money lent (pecuoniq credita) should THO'RIA. This Agraria Lex is the subject
be the same for the Socii and Latini (Socii ac of a very elaborate essay by Rudorff, " L)os
Arosme Latinuonz) as for Roman citizens. The Ackergesetz des Spurius Thorius, Zeitschrift,
object of the Lex was to prevent Romans fromn vol. x."
lending money in the name of the Socii who were This Lex was engraved on the back part of the
not bound by the Fenebres Leges. The Lex same bronze tablet which contained the Servilia
could obviously only apply within the jurisdiction Lex which applied to the Judicia de Repetoundis.
of Rolle. The tablet was broken at some unknown time,
SERVI'LIA AGRARPIA, proposed by the and the lower which was perhaps the larger part
tribune P. Servilius Rullus in the consulship of is now lost. Seven fragments of the upper part
Cicero, B. c. 63, was a very extensive Agraria Ro- were preserved, which as the tablet is written on
gatio. It was successfully opposed by Cicero (In both sides, make fourteen inscriptions, whlicll
Ruldiou); but it was in substance carried by Julius were published by Fulvius Ursinus: the first five
Caesar n. c. 59 [JuLIA LEX AGRARIA], and is of theinscriptions, as they are numbered by him,
the Lex called by Cicero Lex Campana (ad AMl. ii. belong to the Lex Thoria, and the seven last to
18), from the public land called Ager Campanus the Lex Servilia. The largest and most important
being assigned under this Lex. of the fragments are now in the Museo Borbonlico.
SERVI'LIA GLAU'CIA DE REPETUN- Their history is traced and their present condition
DIS. [REPETUNDAE.] described by Rtudorff with great minuteness.'rTwo
SERVI'LIA JUDICIAIRIA, proposed by of the fragments were copied by Sigonioos whecl
the consul Q. Servilius Caepio, B. C. 106. See they were in the Museum of Cardinal Benlbo;
the article JUDEX, p. 649, b, and the various pas- and the copy of the two fiagments of the Lex
sages in Cicero (Brut. 43, 44, 63, 86). It is Thoria, and also the copy of the two fragments of
assumed by some writers that a Lex of the tribune the Lex Servilia, are printed in the work of SigoServilius Glaucia repealed the Servilia Judiciaria nius, De A ntiquo Jur5e Popuolli Romaoz2mi Libr'i UA.
two years after its enactment. (Cic. Brut. 62; decim, Bononiae, 1574.
Orellii Onosmasticon.) The title of this Lex does not appear from the
SI'LIA. (Gaious, iv. 19.) The Legis Actio mutilated inscription, but Rudorff shows that the
called Condictio was established by this Lex in Lex belongs to the period between the consulship of
the case when the demand was a determinate sum P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica and L. Calpurnius Pi'so
of money (ceota pecounica). Bestia, B. C. 111, and that of L. Julius Caesar,
SI'IIA, a plebiscitum proposed by P. and M. B, c. 90, within which space of twenty-two years