law
Lex Iulia de rebus repetundis
Caesar's extortion law
Caesar's law of 59 BC reorganising the regulation of provincial governors; widely held the most carefully framed of Roman extortion laws and the basis for later trials.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 5.10 §2 Nothing is being taken under the Julian law
Caesar's extortion law of 59 BC (lex Iulia de rebus repetundis) strictly capped what a provincial governor and his staff might requisition from local hosts. Cicero boasts that he is taking nothing even of what the law would have allowed him from his hosts.
- Ad Atticum 5.16 §3 what is wont to be furnished under the Lex Julia
Caesar's lex Julia de repetundis (59 BC) fixed strict limits on what a governor and his staff could requisition from a province, allowing such things as hay, firewood, and lodging. Cicero boasts of declining even these legal entitlements, accepting no more than four couches and a roof.
- Ad Atticum 5.21 §5 the Julian law
Caesar's lex Iulia de repetundis of 59 BC tightly regulated what a governor and his staff could requisition from provincials in transit; L. Tullius is faulted for taking his daily entitlement, technically a breach of its strict letter.
- Ad Atticum 6.7 §2 deposit my accounts, made up under the Julian Law, with two cities
Caesar's lex Iulia de repetundis (59 BC) required a departing governor to lodge two copies of his official accounts in the chief cities of his province before forwarding a third to the treasury at Rome; Cicero deposits his at Laodicea and a second city.
- Ad Familiares 5.20 §2 under the Julian law the accounts had to be left in the province and to be entered word for word at the treasury
Caesar's extortion law of 59 BC (lex Iulia de repetundis) required a governor to deposit copies of his accounts in two cities of his province and to lodge an identical copy at the Treasury (aerarium) in Rome. This double filing is the procedural backbone of Cicero's whole defence.
- Ad Familiares 8.8 §2 prosecuted him for extortion
A charge de repetundis, before the standing court for provincial extortion (the quaestio repetundarum), the chief instrument for calling former governors and officials to account.
- Against Piso §37 Caesar's law
The lex Iulia de rebus repetundis (Caesar's extortion law of 59 BC), establishing detailed regulations of provincial governors. Cicero contrasts Caesar's law (which freed peoples) with the consular-province law of Clodius (which gave them to Piso).
- Against Vatinius §29 the most stringent law about extortion
The lex Iulia de pecuniis repetundis, Caesar's extortion law of 59 BC. Cicero's barb is that Vatinius grew rich in the very year his patron Caesar passed the strictest of all laws against provincial plunder.