Lucius Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus

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Lucius Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus came from the Roman patrician family of the Pinarians and, according to ancient tradition, to be enjoyed with caution for the early period of the Roman Republic, was together with Publius Furius Medullinus Fusus in 472 BC. Chr. Consul .

During Pinarius' consulate, the people's tribune Volero Publilius was in office , who is said to have played an outstanding role in the history of the people's tribunate, because he did not do so until after his re-election in the next year 471 BC because of long disputes with the patricians. Brought through a law that assigned the election of the plebeian magistrates to the tribute comitia.

According to the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro, Pinarius himself introduced an intercalation law (insertion of a leap month ) into his consulate . In addition, he had decided on a lex Pinaria named after him with procedural rules for the appointment of judges at the legis actio .

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  1. Diodorus 11, 66, 1; Titus Livy 2, 56, 1; Dionysius of Halicarnassus 9, 40, 1; Varro in Macrobius , Saturnalia 1, 13, 21; among others
  2. Dionysius of Halicarnassus 9, 41–49; Livy 2, 56f.
  3. Varro in Macrobius, Saturnalia 1, 13, 21.
  4. ^ Gaius , Institutiones 4, 15.