Lex Atinia
Lex Atinia a plebiscitum of the time of Sulla; apparently enacted that tribuni plebis should be elected solely from senators. The chief authority on its content is Gel. 14.8 (cf. Plin. Nat. 7.143; Cic. pro Dom. 47), which may also be interpreted to mean (1) that tribuni plebis should become senators virtute officii sui (Becker, 2.2, 277), or (2) that they might (but not must) be chosen from senators (Hofmann, Böm. Senat. pp. 144-165). On the different views, see Walter, Geschichte des röm. Rechts, § 140, note 128. There is a reference to certain Leges Atiniae in Cic. Phil. 3.6, 16; Verr. 1.42, 109, of which nothing further is known.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.