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Lex Cornelia de civitate (Sullae)

Sulla's law on citizenship

also: legem, lege, lex

Sulla's statute after the civil war that purported to strip the rights and citizenship of communities such as Volaterrae and Arretium. Cicero argues in Pro Caecina that citizenship cannot lawfully be taken away by such a law and that its own saving clause undercut it.

Mentioned in 37 works (74 mentions)

For Sextus Roscius of Ameria speech · 2 mentions
For Marcus Tullius speech · 4 mentions
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book I speech · 8 mentions
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book II speech · 9 mentions
Against Verres, First Hearing speech · 1 mention
On the Agrarian Law, Second Speech speech · 2 mentions
On the Agrarian Law, Third Speech speech · 2 mentions
Against Catiline, Fourth Speech speech · 1 mention
For Lucius Murena speech · 5 mentions
For Gaius Rabirius on a Charge of High Treason speech · 3 mentions
For the Poet Aulus Licinius Archias speech · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.3 letter · 1 mention
On His House speech · 4 mentions
Ad Familiares 1.4 letter · 1 mention
On the Consular Provinces speech · 2 mentions
For Lucius Cornelius Balbus speech · 1 mention
Against Piso speech · 2 mentions
Ad Atticum 4.16 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 4.17 letter · 2 mentions
Ad Atticum 4.18 letter · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.11 letter · 1 mention
For Gnaeus Plancius speech · 1 mention
On the Laws phil · 1 mention
For Titus Annius Milo speech · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 5.16 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 8.2 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 8.8 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 5.21 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 6.2 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 8.12 letter · 1 mention
Brutus rhet · 3 mentions
Ad Atticum 13.49 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 15.11 letter · 1 mention
On Duties phil · 1 mention
First Philippic speech · 1 mention
Ad M. Brutum 1.5 letter · 1 mention
Fifth Philippic speech · 3 mentions

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