Gaius Licinius Stolo

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Gaius Licinius Stolo, along with

plebeians
.

A member of the

lex Licinia Sextia restoring the consulship, requiring a plebeian consul seat, limiting the amount of public land that one person could hold, and regulating debts.[1] He also passed a law stipulating that the Sibylline Books should be overseen by decemviri, of whom half would be plebeians in order to prevent any falsification in favor of the patricians
. The patricians opposed these laws, though they finally were passed. Licinius was then elected consul for 361 BC (Fasti Capitolini).

He was later charged with violating his own laws concerning the ownership of land and was forced to pay a heavy fine.[1]

Although

Gracchi two hundred years later, and it is quite possible that the annalist Licinius Macer
invented episodes of his family's activities.

He was married to the youngest daughter of

Lex Licinia Sextia, as she was jealous of the honors of Servius Sulpicius Praetextatus, the patrician husband of her sister.[2] As early as the turn of the 19th century, the German historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr pointed out the historical untrustworthiness and contradictions in this tale.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Licinius Calvus Stolo, Gaius" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 587.
  2. ^ Smith, William (1867). "Praetextatus, Sulpicius (2)". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 515. Archived from the original on 2010-05-25.
  3. Ab Urbe Condita
    vi. 32—34, 36, 38
  4. ^ Barthold Georg Niebuhr, History of Rome vol. iii. pp. 2, 3

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Political offices
Preceded by
Quintus Servilius Ahala II
Lucius Genucius Aventinensis
II
Roman consul
361 BC
with Gaius Sulpicius Peticus
II
Succeeded by