law
leges Semproniae
also: Sempronian laws
The corpus of laws carried by the tribunates of Tiberius Gracchus (133 BC) and especially Gaius Gracchus (123–122 BC) — among them the prohibition on putting a Roman citizen to death without the people's authorisation. Verres's execution of citizens at Messana is arraigned as a breach of this Sempronian guarantee (In Verrem 2.5).
Reading notes
- First Philippic §18 the Sempronian laws will be produced
The legislation of the Gracchi (Tiberius and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus). Cicero's point is that a statesman's true acta are his laws, not memoranda found among his papers.