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lege Cornelia

also: lex Cornelia

A statute of Sulla's dictatorship (81 BC) confirming the legal disabilities of those proscribed and barring their sons from public office and from recovering ancestral property. Cicero touches on its workings in the Verrines and the Pro Roscio Amerino, where the buying-up of proscribed estates at derisory prices forms the criminal background to the case.

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For Sextus Roscius of Ameria speeches · 1 mention
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book I speeches · 2 mentions
Against Piso speeches · 1 mention

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