Lex Genucia
Lex Genucia DE CONSULATU, B.C. 343, a proposal by the same tribune Genucius for opening both consulships to plebeians (Liv. 7.42). In 8.12 Livy represents the law as having actually been passed; but we do not read of both consuls being plebeians till the 6th century, and he is probably incorrect: see Puchta, Institutionen, § 57, note 1; Mommsen, Röm. Staatsrecht, ii. p. 76.
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.