law
Lex Servilia de repetundis
the Servilian law
also: lege Servilia
A late-second-century BC extortion law (of Glaucia or Caepio) that, even before the Cornelian, contained the "to whom the money came" recovery clause. Cicero invokes it to argue the clause now applied to Postumus is long-established.
Reading notes
- Brutus §161 the Servilian law
A jury law (lex Servilia, here the law of Caepio of 106 BC) reforming the composition of the extortion courts; Crassus delivered his famous speech in its support. Cicero treats that speech as a model of oratory.