Cæcilia lex

, was proposed A.U.C. 693, by Cæcilius Me tell us Nepos, to remove taxes from all the Italian states, and to give them free exportation.――Another, called also Didia, A.U.C. 656, by the consul Quintus Cæcilius Me tell us and Titus Didius. It required that no more than one single matter should be proposed to the people in one question, lest by one word they should give their a ent to a whole bill, which might contain clauses worthy to be approved, and others unworthy. It required that every law, before it was preferred, should be exposed to public view on three market-days.――Another, enacted by Cæcilius Me tell us the censor, concerning fullers. Pliny , bk. 35 , ch. 17 .――Another, A.U.C. 701, to restore to the censors their original rights and privileges, which had been le ened by Publius Clodius the tribune.――Another, called also Gabinia, A.U.C. 685, against usury.