Lex Gabinia
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Oct 5, 2026
Jeremy Ryan SlateHOST
Rome was going hungry, and prices were spiking.
Jeremy Ryan SlateHOST
So a tribune proposed the Lex Gabinia, which would give one man the entire sea for three years, with five hundred ships, a hundred and twenty thousand infantry, five thousand cavalry, twenty-four legates, and six thousand talents in money, all under one steel, from Gibraltar all the way to Syria.
Jeremy Ryan SlateHOST
Quintus Catulus, one of the senior men in the Senate, warned them that this was kingship under another name, and they passed it anyway.
Jeremy Ryan SlateHOST
They gave the command to Pompey, and he cleared the sea in a matter of months.
Jeremy Ryan SlateHOST
They'd cut the grain supply, Rome was going hungry, and prices were spiking.
Jeremy Ryan SlateHOST
So a tribune proposed the Lex Gabinia, which would give one man the entire sea for three years.
Jeremy Ryan SlateHOST
With 500 ships, 120,000 infantry, 5,000 cavalry... 24 legates, and 6,000 talents and money, all under one steel.
Jeremy Ryan SlateHOST
From Gibraltar all the way to Syria, Quintus Catullus, one of the senior men in the Senate, warned them that this was kingship under another name, and they passed it anyway.
David WalesNARRATOR
There is the case of the ballot.
David WalesNARRATOR
What a blow was inflicted first by the Lex Gabinia, and two years afterwards by the Lex Catia.
David WalesNARRATOR
I seem already to see the people estranged from the Senate, and the most important affairs at the mercy of the multitude.
David WalesNARRATOR
For you may be sure that more people will learn how to set such things in motion than how to stop them.