LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
Academy · Antiquities

Lex Clodia

Lex Clodia DE CIVIBUS ROMANIS INTEREMTIS, which led to Cicero's exile: it interdicted from fire and water [EXSILIUM] those who had put a Roman citizen to death uncondemned (Vell. 2.45, 1, 2; Dio Cass. xxxviii, 14). Cicero himself considered it a privilegium (ad Att. 3.15, 6; 23, 3; ad Fam. 14.4, 2; in Pison. 13, 30; pro Sestio, 24, 53; 32, 69; pro Domo, 18, 47, &c.).

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.