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Lex Petreia

Lex Petreia, A lex of this name (de decimatione militum) applying in cases of mutiny is mentioned in the old editions of Appian (de Bell. Civ. 2.47), but the true reading is πατρίῳ νόμῳ.

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.