Lex Julia

The consul Caesar had personal reasons for being disquieted with the war, if the story of Orosius be true, that when he asked for a triumph for his victory at Acharai, the Senate sent him a mourning robe as a sign of what they thought of his request.

In any case, he was the author of that Lex Julia which really terminated the Social War.

There are different accounts given of this law.

According to Gellius, it enfranchised all Latium, by which he must mean to include all the Latin colonies.

According to Appian, it enfranchised all the Italians still faithful.

In any case, those enfranchised were not to be enrolled in the old tribes, lest they should swamp them by their votes, but in eight new ones which were to vote only after the others.

The Lex Julia was immediately followed by the Lex Plautia Papiria, framed by the tribunes Marcus Plautius Silvanus and Gaius Papirius Carbo.

This law seems to have been meant to supplement the other.

The consul Caesar had personal reasons for being disquieted with the war, if the story of Orosius be true, that when he asked for a triumph for his victory at Acharai, the Senate sent him a mourning robe as a sign of what they thought of his request.

In any case, he was the author of that Lex Julia which really terminated the Social War.

There are different accounts given of this law.

According to Gellius, it enfranchised all Latium, by which he must mean to include all the Latin colonies.

According to Appian, it enfranchised all the Italians still faithful.

In any case, those enfranchised were not to be enrolled in the old tribes, lest they should swamp them by their votes, but in eight new ones which were to vote only after the others.

The Lex Julia was immediately followed by the Lex Plautia Papiria, framed by the tribunes Marcus Plautius Silvanus and Gaius Papirius Carbo.

This law seems to have been meant to supplement the other.