Lex Plautia Papiria

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With the Lex Plautia Papiria , a plebiscite by the tribunes Marcus Plautius Silvanus and Gaius Papirius Carbo from 89 BC. Chr., Was as a result of the Social War all inhabitants of Rome allied cities in the south of the Po lying part of Italy, the Roman citizenship granted. The condition was that they reported their name to the praetor in Rome within 60 days .

In the same year, with the Lex Pompeia de Transpadanis ("about the Transpadans") of the consul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, the inhabitants of Italy north of the Po were given Latin citizenship.

These two laws replaced the previous regulations on civil rights, such as the provisions of the People's Tribune Lucius Calpurnius Piso, the grandson of the historian of the same name , and those of Lucius Julius Caesar . The former had the civil rights of deserving soldiers, the latter as consul in 90 BC. Only want to lend to the cities that remained loyal to Rome in the alliance war. When the political and military situation in the years 90 and 89 had developed to the disadvantage of Rome, the demands of the insurgents had to be given in completely and the coveted civil rights granted to all residents of Italy.

The Lex Plautia Papiria, however, ensured that the political institutions of the Roman Republic were finally overwhelmed within a short time . The participation of a significant proportion of the citizens in the popular assemblies ( comitia ) in Rome had now become impossible, instruments for other political participation of the local elites in other areas of Italy did not exist. Only the constitution of the principle (although it never existed as a formulated system) created a sustainable order for the community, which had grown enormously through the Lex Plautia Papiria.

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literature

  • Egon Weiß : Lex Plautia 3. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XII, 2, Stuttgart 1925, Col. 2402.
  • T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Vol. II: 99 BC-31 BC (= Philological Monographs , No. XV, 2). American Philological Association, New York 1952, ISBN 978-0891307068 , p. 34.
  • Lex Iulia de Civitate. In: Adolf Berger : Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law (= Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 43, Part 2). Reprint, The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia 1991, p. 553.
  • François Jacques, John Scheid: Rome and the Empire. Constitutional law – religion – army – administration – society – economy. Licensed edition, Nikol Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86820-012-6 , p. 1 ff. (Discussion of the effects of the Lex Plautia Papiria).
  • Ingemar König : The Roman State. A manual. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-018668-8 , p. 131.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Münzer : Calpurnius 98. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Sp. 1395 f.