law
Lex Terentilia
the Terentilian law
also: Terentilian law
The bill of the tribune Terentilius to appoint five men to codify the consular power; its long agitation leads eventually to the Decemvirate and the Twelve Tables.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 3 §10 Terentilian law
Terentilius's proposal, now pressed by the whole college of tribunes, to appoint five men to set the consular power in writing.