law
Lex Iulia de provinciis
Caesar's provinces law
also: lex Iulia, de provinciis, law on provincial commands
Caesar's law limiting tenure of praetorian provinces to one year and consular provinces to two. Cicero praises it in Philippic 1 as one of Caesar's best measures, threatened by Antony's redistribution of the provinces.
Reading notes
- Third Philippic §38 under the Julian Law
Caesar's law limiting tenure of provinces; Cicero's motion invokes it to keep Decimus Brutus, Plancus, and the others in their commands until the Senate appoints successors.