Valeria lex

, de provocatione , by Publius Valerius Poplicola the sole consul, A.U.C. 245. It permitted the appeal from a magistrate to the people, and forbade the magistrate to punish a citizen for making the appeal. It further made it a capital crime for a citizen to aspire to the sovereignty of Rome, or to exercise any office without the choice and approbation of the people. Valerius Maximus , bk. 4 , ch. 1 .— Livy , bk. 2 , ch. 8 .— Dionysius of Halicarna us , bk. 4 .――Another, de debitor i bus , by Valerius Flaccus. It required that all creditors should discharge their debtors, on receiving a fourth part of the whole sum.――Another, by Marcus Valerius Corvinus, A.U.C. 453, which confirmed the first Valerian law, enacted by Poplicola.――Another, called also Horatia , by Lucius Valerius and Marcus Horatius the consuls, A.U.C. 305. It revived the first Valerian law, which, under the triumvirate, had lost its force.――Another, de magi strati bus , by Publius Valerius Poplicola sole consul, A.U.C. 245. It created two questors to take care of the public treasure, which was for the future to be kept in the temple of Saturn. Plutarch , Publicola .— Livy , bk. 2 .