Lex Sempronia
Lex Sempronia DE PROVINCIIS CONSULARIBUS, passed by C. Gracchus, B.C. 123: it enacted that before the election of consuls the senate should in each year determine the two provinces which they were to have at the termination of their year of office; which of the two each was to take, was to be settled by them afterwards by lot or otherwise (Sall. Jugurtha, 27;--Cic. pro Domo, 9, 24; pro Balbo, 27, 61; ad Fam. 1.7, 10; de Prov. Cons. 2, 3).
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.