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Lex Cassia

Lex Cassia (Tac. Ann. 11.25) empowered the dictator Caesar to add to the number of the patricii, in order to prevent their extinction: cf. Sueton. Jul. 41. C. Octavius was made a patrician by this lex (Sueton. Aug. 2).

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.