Lex Visellia
Lex Visellia A.D. 23, rendered libertini liable to a criminal prosecution who fraudulently attempt to exercise the rights of ingenui (Cod. 9, 21; 10, 32, 1): it also enabled Latini Juniani to acquire the civitas by service in the Roman guards (vigiles) for six years, which was subsequently reduced to three by a senatusconsultum (Ulpian, Reg. 3.5).
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.