Balbus
2. Sp. Thorius Balbus, tribune of the plebs bout B. C. 111, was a popular speaker, and introduced in his tribuneship an agrarian law, of which considerable fragments have been discovered on bronze tablets, and of which an account is given in the Dict. of Ant. s. v. Thoria Lex. (Cic. Brut. 36, de Orat. 2.70; Appian, App. BC 1.27.)
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