LEX LATINA TABULAE BANTINAE
   
( 133-100 BC )
 

( M. H. Crawford et al., Roman Statutes, I, London, 1996, pp. 193-208, n. 7 ).

Naples fragments

 
ll. 1-6 [---] and ??? [--- either] in the senate [or] in a iudicium publicum [he is] not [to ask] for his opinion [--- nor is he publicly] to give evidence nor is any magistrate publicly to serve notice of evidence on him [nor is he to allow notice to be served nor] is he to appoint him as a [judge or arbiter or] recuperator ; nor is he to wear in public, in the light of day, the (toga) praetexta or the sandals, nor is any [magistrate to allow ---] ; whichever magistrate shall hold an assembly or concilium is not to allow him to cast a vote ; [whichever magistrate shall hold the census] is to leave [him as an aerarius].
ll. 7-13 [If --- a judge] who shall have been chosen according to this statute or plebiscite or a senator shall have acted or behaved to the effect that [whatever shall be appropriate to be done] according to this statute [should not be done or] knowingly with wrongful deceit shall not have done [whatever] it shall have been or shall be appropriate for him to do according to this statute or [knowingly with wrongful deceit] shall have acted contrary to this statute, [there is to be a fine of ??? sesterces, whoever shall wish is to sue,] whatever magistrate shall be willing is to exact that sum. If whoever shall sue shall demand (it), the praetor is to appoint [such and so many] recuperatores [as may be appropriate to be appointed ---] and is to order him, if it so appear, to be condemned in the interest of the people, and is to see that the case be judged. If he [shall be] condemned, [the praetor] is to see that he give [guarantors and security] to the urban quaestor [for however much the amount shall be] or that his goods be publicly seized. If any magistrate shall wish to propose a fine, it is to lawful [for him to propose however large (a fine) he shall wish, up to] half his property ; and statute is to apply to him in all matters exactly as if he [were exacting the sum which is written down above] according to this statute.
ll. 14-22 [whatever consul, praetor, aedile, quaestor, triumvir capitalis, triumvir for the granting and assigning of land,] is now in office, within the five days next after any of them shall know that the people or the plebs [have passed] this statute, he [is to swear, just as is written down below. Likewise, whatever] dictator, consul, praetor, magister equitum, censor, aedile, tribune of the plebs, quaestor, triumvir capitalis, triumvir for the granting and assigning of land, judge [chosen] according to this statute or plebiscite [---, whoever of them] shall be chosen hereafter, within the five days next after any of them shall have entered upon his magistracy or imperium, they are to swear, [just as is written down below. They --- in front of] the temple of Castor, openly, before the light of day, facing the forum, and they are to swear within the same five days, in the presence of the quaestor, by Jupiter and the [ancestral] gods, [that he] will do [what shall be appropriate according to this statute,] and that he will not act contrary to this statute knowingly with wrongful deceit and that he will not act or intercede [to the effect that this statute may not be, or be improperly, observed.] Whoever shall not have sworn according to this statute, is not to stand for or hold or have any magistracy or imperium, nor [is he hereafter to speak his opinion] in the senate [nor] is anyone to allow (him) nor is a censor to enrol him in the senate. Whoever shall have <sworn> according to this statute, he is to see that [his name] be written down [in the public records] in the presence of the urban quaestor ; and the quaestor is to receive those names and is to see [that he keep] those who have sworn in his presence according to this statute [written down] in the [public] records.
ll. 23-7 [whoever is or shall be a senator or whoever] shall have spoken [his opinion in the senate] after the (successful) proposal of this statute, in the ten days next after any [of them shall know that the people or plebs have passed this statute,] they are to swear in the presence of the quaestor at the treasury, openly, before the light of day, by Jupiter and the ancestral gods, [that he will do what shall be appropriate according to this statute, and that he will not] act contrary to this statute and that he [will not act] to the effect that [this statute may] not [be, or be improperly, observed ---] this statute [---]
ll. 26-32 [---] he shall have sworn <in his presence) [---] any magistrate [--- that] in the public records [---] third market day [---] shall be [---]
 

Adamesteanu fragments

 
[--- the same person] is to see that [---] it is to have been done. For that reason this [statute ---. If there is something prescribed by what is sacred such that] it be not right to propose, [nothing is proposed] according to this statute. [--- to the effect that] in support of this statute in that magistracy [---]