Lex Cassia de senatu

The lex Cassia de senatu was a Roman law, introduced in 104 BC by the tribune L. Cassius Longinus.[1] The law excluded from the senate individuals who had been deprived of imperium by popular vote[2][3] or had been convicted of a crime in a popular assembly (Judicium Populi).[4][5]

Background

The law was a move to restrain the discretionary power of the senate.[6] It was seen as reinforcing the voice of the Roman people.[7] The provision on magistrates stripped of their imperium was a deliberate attack against Quintus Servilius Caepio, proconsul in 105 BC, whose imperium was removed after the disaster of Arausio.[8]

See also

References
  1. "Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898),L, Levee, Lex". www.perseus.tufts.edu.
  2. Berger, Adolf (1953). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law. The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 9781584771425.
  3. Hunter, William Alexander (1803). A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code. Sweet & Maxwell. p. 63. lex cassia 104.
  4. Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony; Eidinow, Esther (2012). The Oxford Classical Dictionary. ISBN 9780199545568.
  5. "Ascon. in Cic. Cornel. p78, ed. Orelli, reference via LaucusCurtius".
  6. Steel, Catherine; Blom, Henriette van der (2013). Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780199641895.
  7. Millar, Fergus (2002). The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472088785.
  8. Broughton T. Robert S. (1952–1986). The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, American Philological Association, vol. I, p. 559.
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