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Lex Scantinia

Lex Scantinia a lex of unknown date, enacted for the suppression of unnatural crime (Auson. Epigr. 89; Juv. 2.44; Cic. Fam. 8.1. 2, 14; Suet. Domit. 8), which was treated by the Lex Julia de adulteriis merely as stuprum (Dig. 48, 5, 34, 1; Collatio, 5.2; Paul. Sent. rec. 2.26, 13), and punished by partial confiscation of property, flogging, and relegatio (Inst. 4.18, 4). For these death was substituted by imperial constitutions (Coil. 5.3; Cod. 9, 9, 31).

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.