The gens Gabinia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens first appear in the second century BC. The nomen derives from the city of...
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Look up gens in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals...
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Ballot laws of the Roman Republic (redirect from Lex Gabinia tabellaria)
were all introduced by tribunes, and consisted of the lex Gabinia tabellaria (or lex Gabinia) of 139 BC, applying to the election of magistrates; the lex...
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create an enormous command against the pirates in consequence of the lex Gabinia in 67 BC and, then, a similarly vast eastern command during the Third Mithridatic...
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to the patronage of Pompey. His name is mostly associated with the lex Gabinia, a law he passed as tribune of the plebs in 67 BC that granted Pompey an...
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Salamis had sent a delegation asking to borrow money, but under the lex Gabinia it was illegal for Romans to lend to provincials in the capital, but Brutus...
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votes before a magistrate. Prior to 139 BC and the passage of the lex Gabinia tabellaria, a voter would queue on raised gangway and then state to a clerk...
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bill to grant lands to Pompey's veterans. Caesar also supported the lex Gabinia in 67 BC granting Pompey an extraordinary command against piracy in the...
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assassinated by his three ambassadors to Rome Audax, Ditalcus and Minurus. Lex Gabinia tabellaria: required a secret ballot in elections of all magistrates. 133 BC...
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for the sponsoring legislator and designated by the adjectival form of his gens name (nomen gentilicum), in the feminine form because the noun lex (plural...
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of quaestors to twenty, attributed to Lucius Cornelius Sulla; the lex Gabinia Calpurnia de insula Delo of 58 BC; and the lex Quinctia of 9 BC. Moreover...
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off Crete in 72 BC, and died shortly after. Finally, in 67 BC the Lex Gabinia was passed in the Plebeian Council, vesting Pompey with unprecedented powers...
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Pompey, Aulus Gabinius, tribune of the plebs in 67 BC, proposed the Lex Gabinia, giving him a mandate for their suppression. It granted him proconsular...
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and 9.1. Secret ballots were not used in Roman elections until the Lex Gabinia tabellaria of 139 BC. See Andrew Lintott, The Constitution of the Roman...
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The wide-reaching grant of proconsular authority was precedented in lex Gabinia's grant of similar authority to Pompey in 67 BC. Furthermore, the proconsular...
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Pompey had control over the Mediterranean to eliminate piracy under the Lex Gabinia. The Cretans offered to surrender to Pompey, convinced that he would be...
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office. The 130s saw the introduction of secret ballot through the lex Gabinia tabellaria and lex Cassia tabellaria. The lex Domitia de sacerdotis in...
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