law
Lex Sempronia de capite civium
Lex Sempronia
also: lex Sempronia, Semproniae legis
Law carried by Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (123 BC) forbidding the execution of a Roman citizen without trial before the people. Cicero cites it in the debate over punishing the conspirators, noting that even its own mover, Gracchus, perished by the people's order.