Lex Cornelia
Lex Cornelia DE PROVINCIIS ORDINANDIS limited the costs which might be incurred by provincial towns in sending public deputations to Rome for the purpose of praising their governor before the senate (Cic. Fam. 3.8, 10), and enacted (1) that those who had provinces under the Lex Sempronia should retain their imperium till they had re-entered the city on their return (Cic. Fam. 1.9, 25); and (2) that provincial governors should leave their province not later than thirty days after the arrival of their successors (Cic. Fam. 3.6, 3; ib. 6).
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.