Lex Claudia
Lex Claudia DE SENATORIBUS, a plebiscitum of 218. B.C.: it enacted that no senator or senator's son should own a ship of larger cubic capacity than 300 amphorae (Liv. 21.63): Cicero says that in his time it was antiqua et mortua
(in Verr. 5.18, 45).
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.