law
Lex Pupia
the Lex Pupia
also: lex Pupia, legem Pupiam
A law (of uncertain date, perhaps 154 BC) regulating the days on which the senate could meet, forbidding sittings on comitial days; cited by Cicero in Fam. 1.4 as barring senate business before the Kalends of February and during much of that month while foreign embassies were pending.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 1.4 §1 under the Lex Pupia
The Lex Pupia regulated which days the senate could sit, barring meetings on days reserved for popular assemblies. Cicero invokes it to explain that no senate could meet before the Kalends of February.
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.11 §3 he is not barred by the lex Pupia
The lex Pupia forbade Senate sittings on comitial days (assembly days), while the lex Gabinia required daily audience to be given to foreign embassies in February; Appius exploits the clash to keep the Senate busy and stall the elections.