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lex Licinia de sodaliciis
Lex Licinia
also: legi Liciniae, lex Licinia, the Lex Licinia
Crassus's law of 55 BC against electoral clubs (sodalicia) used to organise bribery, prosecuting the systematic corruption of voting tribes. A defendant acquitted under the general lex de ambitu could still be tried afresh under this stricter statute.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 8.2 §1 he comes up under the Lex Licinia
Crassus's Lex Licinia de sodaliciis of 55 BC, against the electoral clubs (sodalicia) used to organise bribery; a man acquitted on the general bribery charge could be retried under this stricter law, hence the defendant's worse danger.
- For Gnaeus Plancius §36 Lex Licinia
The Lex Licinia de sodaliciis (55 BC), aimed at the sodalicia or electoral clubs used to organize wholesale bribery. Its distinctive feature allowed the prosecutor to name the tribunal of jurors, the procedure Cicero attacks at length as Laterensis's chief unfair advantage.