Julia lex

, prima de provinciis , by Julius Cæsar, A.U.C. 691. It confirmed the freedom of all Greece; it ordained that the Roman magistrates should act there as judges, and that the towns and villages through which the Roman magistrates and amba adors pa ed should maintain them during their stay; that the governors, at the expiration of their office, should leave a scheme of their accounts in two cities of their province, and deliver a copy of it at the public treasury; that the provincial governors should not accept of a golden crown unle they were honoured with a triumph by the senate; that no supreme commander should go out of his province, enter any dominions, lead an army, or engage in a war, without the previous approbation and command of the Roman senate and people.――Another, de sumptibus , in the age of August us. It limited the expense of provisions on the dies profesti , or days appointed for the transaction of busine , to 200 sesterces; on common calendar festivals to 300; and on all extraordinary occasions, such as marriages, births, . , to 1000.――Another, de provinciis , by Julius Cæsar Dictator. It ordained that no pretorian province should be held more than one year, and a consular province more than two years.――Another, called also Campana agraria , by the same, A.U.C. 691. It required that all the lands of Camp an i a, formerly rented according to the estimation of the state, should be divided among the plebeians, and that all the members of the senate should bind themselves by an oath to establish, confirm, and protect that law.――Another, de civitate , by Lucius Julius Cæsar, A.U.C. 664. It rewarded with the name and privileges of citizens of Rome all such as, during the civil wars, had remained the constant friends of the republican liberty. When that civil war was at an end, all the Italians were admitted as free denizens, and composed eight new tribes.――Another, de judicibus , by Julius Cæsar. It confirmed the Pompeian law in a certain manner, requiring the judges to be chosen from the richest people in every century , allowing the senators and knights in the number, and excluding the tribuni ærarii .――Another, de ambitu , by August us. It restrained the illicit measures used at elections, and restored to the comitia their ancient privileges, which had been destroyed by the ambition and bribery of Julius Cæsar.――Another, by August us, de adulterio & pudic it iâ . It punished adultery with death. It was afterwards confirmed and enforced by Domitian. Juvenal , satire 2, li. 30 , alludes to it.――Another, called also Papia , or Papia Poppæa , which was the same as the following, only enlarged by the consuls Papius and Poppæus, A.U.C. 762.――Another, de mar it and is ordinibus , by August us. It proposed rewards to such as engaged in matrimony, of a particular description. It inflicted punishment on celibacy, and permitted the patricians, the senators and sons of senators excepted, to intermarry with the libertini , or children of those that had been liberti , or servants manumitted. Horace alludes to it when he speaks of lex marita .――Another, de majestate , by Julius Cæsar. It punished with aquæ & ignis interdictio all such as were found guilty of the crimen majestatis , or treason against the state.