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Lex Aternia Tarpeia

Lex Aternia Tarpeia B.C. 454, gave to all magistrates the right, which had hitherto belonged only to the consuls, of fining those who resisted their authority: the maximum of the fine, which had been fixed by a Lex Valeria (B.C. 509) at two sheep and five oxen, was raised to two sheep and thirty oxen: cf. PAPIRIA or JULIA PAPIRIA (Cic. de Republ. 2.35, 60; Dion. Halic. 10.50; Gellius, 11.1, 2-3; Festus, s. vv. Ovibus, Duobus, Peculatus; Paul. Diac. ex Festo, s. v. Maximam Multam; Plin. Nat. 18.11; Niebuhr, Röm. Geschichte, ii. p. 341 sq.; Mommsen, Röm. Staatsrecht, i. p. 128; Huschke, Multa, pp. 31, 46, 88; Puchta, Institutionen, § 53 ad fin.; Walter, Geschichte des röm. Rechts, § 820.)

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