Lex Sempronia
Lex Sempronia DE CAPITE CIVIUM, carried by Caius Gracchus, B.C. 123: it re-affirmed the old legal principle that no judgment should be pronounced involving the life or freedom of a citizen without the assent of the Roman people (Cic. pro Rabirio, 4, 8; in Cat. 4, 5; in Verr. 5.63, 163; Gel. 10.3). See Ahren's Excursus on the statute, cited by Orelli, Cicero, vol. viii. pp. 264, 265.
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.