Lex Caecilia
Lex Caecilia DE VECTIGALIBUS, B.C. 62, released the harbours of Italy from payment of direct taxes (portoria) to the state (D. C. 37.51; Cic. Att. 2.1. 6; ad Quint. fratr. 1.10; Dig. 50, 16, 203), which, however, were re-imposed by Caesar (Suet. Jul. 43).
CAECl‘LIA DIDIA, B.C. 98, forbade the proposing of a Lex Satura (i. e. of enactments relating to different matters in one rogatio), lest people might be compelled either to vote for something which they did not approve, or reject something which they did. It also contained a provision that leges should be promulgated trinis nundinis before they were proposed to the Comitia (Cic. Phil. 5.3, 8; pro Dom. 16, 41; 20, 53; pro Sestio, 64, 135; ad Att. 2.9, 1: see LICINIA JUNIA).
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.