Gaius Atinius Labeo (Tribune of the People)
Gaius Atinius Labeo lived in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. In Rome and was a plebeian . In 196 BC he led From the office of a tribune of the people . Together with his colleague Quintus Marcius Ralla , against the will of the incumbent consuls , he succeeded in having the peace agreement with Philip V , King of Macedonia , ratified by a plebiscite .
At the end of the Second Macedonian-Roman War , the Roman Senate decided in a Senatus consultum that the conditions defined by Titus Quinctius Flamininus should lead to a peace agreement. At the instigation of the consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus , the Senate was to be moved in a new Senate resolution, contrary to the previously applicable agreement to administer Macedonia as a province and to draw this between him and his colleague Lucius Furius Purpureo , alongside the province of Gallia cisalpina . Marcellus cited his doubts about the keeping of the peace on the part of Philips V as the reason. The majority of the senators were apparently inclined to the consul who argued in this way, so that a new senate resolution would have meant the resumption of the fighting. The tribunes of the people Gaius Atinius Labeao and Quintus Marcius Ralla then threatened to prevent such a senatus consultum by intercession if the matter had not previously been voted on by the people in a concilium plebis . The maintenance of the existing peace with the previously agreed conditions was unanimously decided and ratified by the People's Assembly.
In 195 BC Gaius Atinius Labeo held the office of praetor peregrinus , in which he was responsible for the judiciary in Rome between citizens and non-citizens . Presumably, the ratification of the Lex Atini can be traced back to him. The law legitimized the claim of plebeian officials to receive a seat and voting rights in the Senate after their service without having to rely on the goodwill of the censors .
literature
- Hans Georg Gundel : Atinius 4. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, column 711.
- Wolfgang Kunkel : State order and state practice of the Roman Republic . Second part. The Magistratur (= Handbook of Classical Studies . Volume 10,3,2,2). CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-33827-5 , II. Die Zensur , p. 442, VI. The People's Tribunate, e) Plebiscites on one's own initiative in agreement with the Senate , p. 616.
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| SURNAME | Labeo, Gaius Atinius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Atinius Labeo, Gaius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tribune |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century BC Chr. |