law
Lex Trebonia
the lex Trebonia
The law carried by the tribune Lucius Trebonius requiring the presiding tribune to keep the election open until a full board of ten tribunes had been chosen, barring co-optation.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 3 §65 go on putting it until he had made ten tribunes of the plebs
The lex Trebonia: it required the presiding tribune to keep the election open until a full board of ten plebeian tribunes was chosen, blocking the co-optation of patrician-friendly colleagues.
- The History of Rome, Book 5 §11 the Trebonian law
The law carried by the tribune Lucius Trebonius requiring the presiding tribune to keep the election open until a full board of ten tribunes had been chosen, barring co-optation.