Licinian Rogations
Definition:
The 367 B.C. Licinian Rogations are known mostly for having limited the amount of ager publicus 'public land' an individual could hold. Because of Rome's recent conquests in Italy, land newly available had been seized, mostly by the wealthy. Instead of each Roman having enough to support his family, the rich were speculating and making profits on land, while the poor were having a hard time remaining even self-sufficient.
The Licinian Rogations began in 375 when two tribunes of the Plebs, Licinius Stolo and L. Sextius (L. Sextius Sextinus Lateranus), made rogationes (proposals that could become law) about debt, the ager publicus and that one of the consuls might be a plebeian. Eight years later, the same 2 tribunes were still in power. Stolo and Sextius were more powerful than ever having stopped legislation during their terms in office by means of the primary tribunician power -- the veto; and so, in 367, they got their way, and the plebeian Sextius was elected consul, along with the patrician L. Aemilius Mamercinus. The law about the public land included a provision that no one would graze more than 100 large and 500 smaller animals on the public pastures. Licinius himself was affected by this law. The three rogationes were included in a Lex Satura meaning that it was a law dealing with disparate matters.
Sources: Rogations - Nova Roma
Licinian Rogations
Examples: While the Licinian Rogations started the process of making one of the two consuls a plebeian, the Leges Genuciae in 342 made it mandatory.
There is a problem, though, since some of the consular names before the Licinian Rogations appear to have been plebeian.
The 367 B.C. Licinian Rogations are known mostly for having limited the amount of ager publicus 'public land' an individual could hold. Because of Rome's recent conquests in Italy, land newly available had been seized, mostly by the wealthy. Instead of each Roman having enough to support his family, the rich were speculating and making profits on land, while the poor were having a hard time remaining even self-sufficient.
The Licinian Rogations began in 375 when two tribunes of the Plebs, Licinius Stolo and L. Sextius (L. Sextius Sextinus Lateranus), made rogationes (proposals that could become law) about debt, the ager publicus and that one of the consuls might be a plebeian. Eight years later, the same 2 tribunes were still in power. Stolo and Sextius were more powerful than ever having stopped legislation during their terms in office by means of the primary tribunician power -- the veto; and so, in 367, they got their way, and the plebeian Sextius was elected consul, along with the patrician L. Aemilius Mamercinus. The law about the public land included a provision that no one would graze more than 100 large and 500 smaller animals on the public pastures. Licinius himself was affected by this law. The three rogationes were included in a Lex Satura meaning that it was a law dealing with disparate matters.
Sources: Rogations - Nova Roma
Licinian Rogations
Examples: While the Licinian Rogations started the process of making one of the two consuls a plebeian, the Leges Genuciae in 342 made it mandatory.
There is a problem, though, since some of the consular names before the Licinian Rogations appear to have been plebeian.
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