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Lex Gabinia

Lex Gabinia DE VERSURA, passed by the same tribune in the same year, and forbidding all loans of money at Rome to legationes from foreign parts, its object being to prevent the senate from being bribed by such embassies (Cic. Att. 5.2. 1, 12; 6.2, 7).

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.