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Lex Canuleia

Lex Canuleia B.C. 445, legalised conubium between patricians and plebeians, which had been denied by one of the two last tables of the decemviral legislation; so that issue of such a marriage would in future be in the patria potestas (Liv. 4.1, 4, 6; Cic. de Rep. 2.37, 63).

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.