A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

by William Smith

CORNĒLIA ET CAECĬLĪA, B.C. 57, gave Cn. Pompeius the superintendence of the Res Frumentaria for five years.

CORNĒLĬA BAEBĬA DE AMBĬTU, proposed by the consuls P. Cornelius Cethegus and M. Baebius Tamphilus, B.C. 181. This law is sometimes, but erroneously, attributed to the consuls of the preceding year, L. Aemilius and Cn. Baebius. [[Ambitus].]

CŪRIĀTA LEX DE IMPERIO. [[Imperium].]

CŪRIĀTA LEX DE ADOPTIONE. [[Adoptio].]

DĔCEMVĬRĀLIS. [[Lex Duodecim Tabularum].]

DĔCĬA DE DUUMVIRIS NAVALIBUS. (Liv. ix. 30.)

DĪDĬA. [[Leges Sumptuariae].]

DOMĬTĬA DE SĂCERDŌTIIS. [[Sacerdos].]

DUĪLĬA (B.C. 449), a plebiscitum proposed by the tribune Duilius, which enacted that whoever left the people without tribunes, or created a magistrate from whom there was no appeal (provocatio), should be scourged and beheaded.

DUĪLĬA MAENĬA, proposed by the tribunes Duilius and Maenius (B.C. 357), restored the old uncial rate of interest (unciarium fenus), which had been fixed by the Twelve Tables. [[Fenus].] The same tribunes carried a measure which was intended, in future, to prevent such unconstitutional proceedings as the enactment of a lex by the soldiers out of Rome, on the proposal of the consul.