person
Lucius Flavius
Flavius
also: Flavius, Flavio, a Flavio tribuno pl.
Tribune of the plebs 60 BC who, backed by Pompey, promulgated an agrarian bill to settle Pompey's veterans and the urban poor on land bought with the new Eastern revenues; the senate obstructed it and it lapsed. FLAG: possible duplicate of the stub person:l-flavius-eques (first_appearance in-verrem-2-1), which appears to be an earlier and distinct figure; flag-not-merge.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 1.18 §6 An agrarian law has been promulgated by Flavius
L. Flavius, tribune of 60 BC and Pompey's agent, brought a land bill to settle Pompey's veterans, modelled on an earlier Plotian bill. Pompey backed it only feebly, to Cicero's disgust.
- Ad Atticum 1.19 §4 The agrarian law of the tribune Flavius
L. Flavius, tribune of 60 BC, proposed at Pompey's instigation to buy land for Pompey's returning veterans and the urban poor, funded by the new revenues from Pompey's Eastern conquests. Cicero amended it to protect existing private holdings; the senate, fearing it would give Pompey a power base, blocked it.
- Ad Atticum 10.1 §2 Flavius is being given a legion and Sicily
L. Flavius, a Caesarian, was being installed with a legion to hold the strategic grain-province of Sicily. Such appointments by Caesar's personal authority, bypassing the Senate, were among the acts Cicero regarded as the lawless seizure of the state.