Lex Trebonia
Lex Trebonia carried by the tribune L. Trebonius (B.C. 448), and enacting that if the Comitia were unable to elect ten tribuni plebis on the proper day, those actually selected should not fill up the vacancies by cooptation, but the Comitia be continued until the full number was complete (Liv. 3.64, 65; 5.10).
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