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Lex Cornelia de repetundis

the Cornelian law

also: Cornelia

Sulla's extortion law of 81 BC, which (with the earlier lex Servilia) already contained the "to whom the money came" clause that the lex Iulia later carried over. Cicero cites it to show the procedure used against Postumus is no novelty.

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On Invention rhetoric · 1 mention
For Sextus Roscius of Ameria speeches · 1 mention
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book I speeches · 2 mentions
Ad Familiares 5.6 letters · 1 mention
Against Piso speeches · 1 mention
Brutus rhetoric · 2 mentions
On Divination philosophy · 1 mention

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