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Lex Mamilia

Lex Mamilia DE JUGURTHAE FAUTORIBUS established a special tribunal of three quaesitores to investigate cases of bribery among Romans by Jugurtha (Sallust, Jugurtha, 40, 65; Cic. Brut. 33, 34: cf. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsrecht, vol. ii. pp. 646, 647).

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.