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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.

Mentioned in 2 works (2 total)

Ad Familiares 1.4 letters · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.11 letters · 1 mention

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