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repetundae

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(pecūniae), (money) to be recovered. The quaestiō dē repetundīs (see quaestiones) was an extortion court established to secure compensation for the illegal acquisition of money or property ...

repetundae

repetundae ((pecuniae))   Reference library

Ernst Badian and Andrew William Lintott

The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)

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2012
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... ( pecuniae ) , (money) to be recovered. The quaestio de repetundis ( see quaestiones ) was a court established to secure compensation for the illegal acquisition of money or property by Romans in authority abroad. Before the establishment of the permanent quaestio , such offences were either brought before an assembly or tried by a panel of recuperatores in a quasi-civil suit (Livy 43. 2). A civil procedure was also used originally to bring prosecutions in the quaestio , i.e. the actio sacramento , and a verdict of guilty was followed by an...

repetundae

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World

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2007
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Classical studies, History
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468 words

... ( pecūniae ), (money) to be recovered. The quaestiō dē repetundīs ( see quaestiones ) was an extortion court established to secure compensation for the illegal acquisition of money or property by Romans in authority abroad. Gaius Sempronius Gracchus , finding the original standing court of 149 bc corrupt and its senatorial jurors unwilling to convict fellow‐senators, had a law passed, of which major fragments survive on bronze. It was a radical reform: those liable were now all senators, ex‐magistrates, or their close relatives (but not ...

repetu'ndae

repetu'ndae   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.)

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2011
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Literature, Classical studies
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89 words

... (Lat., in full res repetundae , ‘property to be recovered’) The legal charge of extortion. When Roman provincial magistrates returned to Rome, any accusations made by provincials about extortion were brought before a special court. Radical reform of the judicial process to be followed began with C. Sempronius Gracchus ( see Gracchi ) and developed into a procedure of much complexity, with emphasis on clear accountability. The penalty was originally simple restitution, but later double repayment. From being a civil offence it became a criminal...

repetundae,

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Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary: Latin-English (3 ed.)

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2012
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Bilingual dictionaries, Classical studies
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repetundae

repetundae  

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(pecūniae), (money) to be recovered. The quaestiō dē repetundīs (see quaestiones) was an extortion court established to secure compensation for the illegal acquisition of money or property by Romans ...
Acilius Glabrio, Manius

Acilius Glabrio, Manius  

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(RE 37)grandson of (1), son-in-law of a Scaevola (probably Q. Mucius Scaevola (1)), as tribune 122 bc passed a repetundae law providing for equites as jurors and making procedure ...
Servilius Glaucia, Gaius

Servilius Glaucia, Gaius  

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(RE 65)probably of remote noble descent (Papers of the British School at Rome 52 1984, 62f.), demagogue and clever and witty orator (Cicero Brutus 224), quaestor before 107 bc. ...
Manius Aquillius

Manius Aquillius  

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(RE 10)consul 129 bc, succeeded M. Perperna (1) in Asia and completed the war against the allies of Aristonicus (1). With the help of a senatorial commission he delimited ...
Antonius ‘Hybrida’, Gaius

Antonius ‘Hybrida’, Gaius  

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(RE 19)son of M. Antonius (1). An officer under Sulla in Greece and rewarded in his proscriptions, he was prosecuted and escaped conviction by appealing to the tribunes. The ...
Marcus Fonteius

Marcus Fonteius  

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(RE 12)began his career under L. Cornelius Cinna (1), but joined Sulla. He served in Spain and Macedonia and after his praetorship governed Transalpine Gaul (probably 74–72 bc), enthusiastically ...
Calpurnius Piso Frugi, Lucius

Calpurnius Piso Frugi, Lucius  

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(RE 96)earned his agnomen (which became hereditary) by his probity. As tribune 149 bc, he set up the first of the quaestiones: a standing committee of senators to hear ...
Porcius Cato, Gaius

Porcius Cato, Gaius  

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(RE 5)grandson of M. Porcius Cato (1) and of L. Aemilius Paullus (2), was a friend of Ti. Sempronius Gracchus (3), but seems to have turned against him (see ...
Manilius Gaius

Manilius Gaius  

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(RE 10, cf. 23),elected tribune (see tribuni plebis) for 66 bc, hence entering office on 10 December 67, on the last day of 67 carried a law distributing freedmen ...
Valerius Flaccus, Lucius

Valerius Flaccus, Lucius  

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(RE 178)was unsuccessfully prosecuted after his aedileship (98 bc) by C. Appuleius Decianus; he governed Asia after his praetorship and was prosecuted repetundarum (Cicero Divinatio in Caecilium 63: ...
Quintus Pompeius

Quintus Pompeius  

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(RE 12)a novus homo attached to P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, became consul in 141 bc by trickery and against Scipio's will (it was said). Cicero (Brutus 96) ascribes his ...
Manius Aquillius

Manius Aquillius  

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(RE 11)son of (1), chief legate of C. Marius (1) against the Cimbri, and his colleague as consul 101 bc. He crushed the slave revolt in Sicily, personally killing ...
ampliatio

ampliatio  

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Means ‘a further hearing’ and is known to us as a feature of procedure in some quaestiones and trials before recuperatores under the republic. When a certain proportion of the ...
Aemilius Scaurus, Marcus

Aemilius Scaurus, Marcus  

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(RE 141)son of M. Aemilius Scaurus (1) and Caecilia Metella (1), hence stepson of L. Cornelius Sulla. Quaestor under Pompey c.65 bc, he intervened in Judaea and Nabataea, chiefly ...
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It is clear from Priscian, Institutes 2. 49–50=2. 75 Keil, that the concept of leges frumentariae, agrariae, nummariae, and so on (see below) was familiar to the Romans. We discuss ...
edicts of Cyrēnē

edicts of Cyrēnē  

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Five edicts of Augustus preserved in a Greek inscription from Cyrene. The first four belong to 7–6 bc and apply to the public (i.e. senetorial) province of Crete and Cyrene alone; the fifth, which ...

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