Lex Cornelia
Lex Cornelia NE QUIS LEGIBUS SOLVERETUR, passed by C. Cornelius, tribunus plebis, B.C. 67, and directed against the reckless exercise by the senate of its usurped power of granting dispensations from the laws: in future such a dispensation required the presence of 200 members in the senate, and also confirmation by the Comitia Tributa; but no tribune was to be able to veto the proposal (Ascon. in Corn. p. 57, 72, Orelli; D. C. 36.22).
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.