Rogatio VIII tribunorum ( Crawford )

ROGATIO VIII TRIBUNORUM

Bill of the plebeian tribunes on restoring Cicero

( October 29, 58 BC )

Cicero, Att., III, 23 ( Crawford, Roman Statutes, II, pp. 775-776, n. 57 ).

si quid in hac rogatione scriptum est quod per leges plebisue scita promulgare, abrogare, derogare, obrogare sine fraude sua non liceat, non licuerit, quodue ei qui promulgauit, <abrogauit>, derogauit, <obrogauit> ob eam rem poenae multaeue sit, e(ius) h(ac) l(ege) n(ihilum) r(ogatur).

► Bibliography

Johnson, Coleman-Norton & Bourne, Ancient Roman Statutes, Austin, 1961, p. 79, n. 89 ; Moreau, Ath, 77, 1989, pp. 151-178 ; de Libero, Obstruktion : Politische Praktiken im Senat und in der Volksversammlung der ausgehenden römischen Republik (70-49 v.Chr.), Stuttgart, 1992, p. 25 ; Crawford et al., Roman Statutes, II, London, 1996, pp. 775-776, n. 57 ; Williamson, The laws of the Roman people : public law in the expansion and decline of the Roman Republic, Ann Arbor, 2005, p. 468.