A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

tribune of the plebs. The date of his tribuneship is not ascertained. He brought forward and carried the lex Acilia de Repetundis, which prohibited ampliatio and comperendinatio. (Cic. in Verr. Act. Pr. 17, in Verr. 2.1, 9, Pseudo-Ascon. in Act. I. Verr. p. 149, in Act. II. Verr. p. 165, Orelli.) For the Lex Caecilia mentioned by Valerius Maximus (6.9.10), we should probably read Lex Acilia. (Dict. of Antiq. s. v. Repetundae.)