law
Lex Campana
the Campanian law
also: Campana lex, the Campanian law, Lex Iulia Campana
Caesar's second agrarian law of 59 BC, distributing the public land of Campania (ager Campanus) to settlers; candidates were made to swear a self-cursing oath upholding it. FLAG: may be treated as a clause/second statute of lex-iulia-agraria-59bc rather than a wholly separate law.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 2.18 §2 The Campanian law even has a curse for the candidates in their public meeting
Caesar's second agrarian law of 59 BC distributed the public land of Campania. To entrench it, candidates for office were made to swear at a public meeting (contio) a self-cursing oath (exsecratio) never to propose holding the land on any other terms than the Julian laws allowed.